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August 2008

alphaWorks Services | Social Accessibility Project | Overview

by karlcow & 1 other

The Social Accessibility Project is a service whose goal is to make Web pages more accessible to people with disabilities. The service gathers users' input and uses the power of the open community while not changing any existing content.

June 2008

Indirect Manipulation » Blog Archive » Looking Through the Facets

by karlcow

One could argue that the Web will become more immersive, more visual, more haptic, more identity-driven through avatar technology. Is it likely? I don’t know. Is it possible? You bet.

May 2008

Bug 12132 - Implement ARIA to enable dynamic web appliations

by karlcow

Bug 12132: Implement ARIA to enable dynamic web appliations

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April 2008

Porn for the Blind

by karlcow & 3 others

Porn for the Blind is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to producing audio descriptions of sample movie clips from adult web sites. This service is provided free of charge.

February 2008

[DRAFT] Experiences Shared by People with Disabilities and by People Using Mobile Devices

by karlcow

People with disabilities (using desktop or laptop computers) and people without disabilities who are using mobile devices have similar interaction limitations and experience similar barriers when interacting with Web sites. There is also significant overlap between the design solutions for both. For more information, see:

December 2007

blogx » Blog Archive » Firefox 3

by karlcow

I’ve already stopped using ems as a relative unit for layout and sizing and have gone back to pixels because of the zoom for IE7 that works like Opera.

November 2007

September 2007

BBC NEWS | Technology | Deaf to sign via video handsets

by karlcow

Deaf to sign via video handsets Signing clips, U Washington The software increases detail around face and fingers Deaf people could soon be using video mobiles to chat with their friends using sign language.

Youtube devenant un portail pour personnes sourdes

May 2007

April 2007

A List Apart: Articles: Accessible Web 2.0 Applications with WAI-ARIA

by sebastien & 1 other
Web 2.0 applications often have accessibility and usability problems because of the limitations of (X)HTML. The W3C’s standards draft for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) addresses those limitations. It provides new ways of communicating meaning, importance, and relationships, and it fills gaps in the (X)HTML specifications and increases usability for all users by enabling navigation models familiar from desktop applications. Best of all, you can start using ARIA right away to enhance the accessibility of your websites.

March 2007

Juicy Studio: Colour Contrast Analyser Firefox Extension

by karlcow
Determining the colour contrast between foreground and background colours is a time consuming task, but is greatly aided by colour contrast analysers. The problem with colour contrast analysers is that they don't automatically go through all of the possible colour combinations in a document; instead, it requires a judgement call by the person evaluating the page to decide whether colour combinations look like they may be problematic, and then to enter those colours into a colour contrast analyser.

January 2007

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) - home page

by pvergain & 10 others
W3C WAI's work on accessibility of AJAX, DHTML, and other application technologies includes the Accessibility for Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) Suite. Updated Working Drafts of the WAI-ARIA Suite documents were published 20 December 2006. WAI encourages you to review these documents and submit any comments. See: * WAI-ARIA Suite Overview, a new document * Call for Review: Updated Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) Working Drafts e-mail * How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process: Milestones and Opportunities to Contribute

December 2006

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