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WCAG Samurai Errata Released

Some thorough commentary from Mel Pedley on Joe Clark's WCAG Samurai Errata: WCAG Samurai Errata Released WCAG Samurai Peer Review: Part 1 WCAG S [...]

An introduction to screen readers

In this video, Victor Tsaran talks through how he uses a screen reader. [...]

Closing the gap - User Agent improvements

AlastairC talks about improvements that could be made with User Agents including, most interestingly, the idea of setting up 'Profiles'. The idea behi [...]

Some 'Must Read' accessibility blogs

...compiled by Jared Smith of WebAIM [...]

Flexibility is the new accessibility

Grant Broome talks about Making software accessible [...]

WCAG 2.0: Woeful to Wonderful in One Easy Draft?

Jack Pickard runs through the latest draft of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and finds the recent updates are a considerable improvement:[th [...]

Word-Bank

WordBank is a web-tool that help people understand difficult words and jargon by creating a pop-up window with an explanation, example and audio refer [...]

Game Over! - the world's first universally inaccessible game!

Game Over! aims to provide game developers with a first-hand (frustrating) experience of how it feels interacting with a game that is not accessible d [...]

Accessible CAPTCHA

Here's another take on an accessible CAPTCHA. It's not straight forward to understand at first though. [...]

The Business Case for Web Standards Wiki

Chris Heilmann has set up a Business Case for Web Standards Wiki with the aim of encouraging people to start inputting their information and experienc [...]

Setting & Retrieving Accesskeys with JavaScript and DOM

demonstrates Ian Lloyd demonstrates how to use a little bit of JavaScript and the DOM magic to allow users to create their own accesskeys. [...]

Search Thresher

Search Thresher is a Firefox extension peoduced by Segala that allows users to search for Web sites that make claims about conformance to standards an [...]

Helping the Blind "See" Internet Multimedia

IBM previews a new accessibility tool for people with low or no vsion to access multimedia web content. [...]

Petition for accessible government websites

I recently signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to "ensure that any website launched by the government complies with accessibility standar [...]

Good English, Poor Accessibility?

Smiffy ponders the accessibility issues related to the various styles of writing or presenting words and numbers in English. [...]

A new CAPTCHA?

Bots: no lying [...]

Failed? Fundamentally Flawed?

Mike Davies has stuck his oar in and is stirring 'til his heart's content. He suggests that the big accessibility institutions on the web, like GAWDS, [...]

Should I only make sure that everything is accessible?

asks Vasilis van Gemert. [...]

Now You See It, Now You Don't

Interesting viewpoint this:So just what is a decorative image? It seems to me that one person's eye candy is another person's emotional link to a webs [...]

The three main barriers to an accessible site according to a visually impaired software expert

Ray Campbell, formerly an employee of global telecommunications group Lucent Technologies, cited graphics which lack descriptive text tags, necessary [...]

Is it time to cancel WCAG 2.0?

Joe Clark sends an open letter to Tim Berners-Lee regarding the state of WCAG 2.0. Tracy Godding discusses it further with comments open to share your [...]

Brain Crash

Does this look confusing: GREEN, BLUE, YELLOW. Try Brain Crash to test your cognitive skills. [...]

Accessites.org

If you haven't seen the new design for Accessites.org, get over there now! You can now leave comments too! [...]

Interview with a dyslexic web user about web access

Another insightful interview over at Access 2.0. [...]

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