Beyond guidelines: Advanced accessibility techniques

Some useful tips for improving accessibility over at Webcredible. I'm not so sure about the 'hidden text' idea though... it's been mentioned elsewhere [...]

WCAG 2.0 FAQs

WAI gathered a few frequently asked questions about Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and provided answers in a WCAG 2 FAQ. [...]

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 [...]

Guidelines for Visualizing Links

Jacob Nielson has produced guidelines for visualising links in a web page. In summary:Textual links should be colored and underlined to achieve the [...]

WCAG 2.0 developments

Jack Pickard provides some details on the latest develpments being made on the WCAG 2.0 spec. [...]

Observing Users Who Work With Screen Readers

Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites: Observing Users Who Work With Screen Readers... downl oad the PDF. [...]

Foreignize your content

Link dump #123

60 hot to touch Accessible Web Design tips

Jim Byrne has a new book out detailing web design tips with an accessibility bent. You can download it or order it in print from Lulu. [...]

new accessibility site

looks to have promising content. [...]

How to Write Content for the Web

Mike Cherim tackles an important subject that web designers as well as the publishers need to consider: How to Write Content for the Web [...]

See JAWS being used by a blind tester

On the afternoon of Monday 11 September Test Partners are running a demonstration of the JAWS screen reader with a blind tester to illustrate the issu [...]

Content-Type is dead

Hixie reckons Content-Type is deadI think it may be time to retire the Content-Type header, putting to sleep the myth that it is in any way authoritat [...]

Web Accessibility

The Business Case for Web Accessibility is an article written by Andy Budd, and well worth reading if you design websites for business clients. [...]

Helping the Blind "See" Internet Multimedia

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

Accessible Content Magazine

And old issues are accessible online too. [...]

Seven Accessibility Mistakes (Part 1)

The first in a two part article by Christian Heilmann has been published at D igital Web Magazine and discusses mistakes commonly made between web d [...]

Web Accessibility Tools Consortium

Looks like a useful resource for all things web design and accessibilty. [...]

Link dump #2

Web Accessibility Toolbar

I haven't tried it out yet... but it could be useful: Web Accessibility Toolbar. [...]

What we can learn from Flickr

Paul Boag uses Flickr as an example of how to deliver web content:These days the web is becoming less about websites and more about content delivery i [...]

Accessibility In Trouble 2: Standards

Mike Davies reckons web accessibility is heading for trouble. [...]

WAVE v4

Accessibility Is Not Enough

In typical, blustery fashion, Jakob Nielsen decries that having an accessible web site isn't enough... it's got to be usable as well.A strict focus [...]