Advancements in the accessibility of Facebook on Marco’s accessibility blog
It’s great to see the changes that Facebook’s four-person accessibility team have managed to push through.
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Accessibility – what is it good for? | Marco’s accessibility blog
A worrying look at how modern web developers approach accessibility. In short, they don’t.
Easy Fixes to Common Accessibility Problems | Yahoo! Accessibility Library
The low-hanging fruit of accessibility fixes; it’s worth bearing these in mind.
Forget Your Past – Timothy Allen | Photography | Film
A trip to Buzludzha in Bulgaria, a derelict monument to an abandoned ideology.
Confusion over HTML5 & WAI-ARIA | Karl Groves
This helps to clarify the difference between native semantics and ARIA additions.
accessifyhtml5.js at master from yatil’s accessifyhtml5.js - GitHub
A great little jQuery script to automatically assign ARIA roles to HTML5 elements with the corresponding semantics.
_not my type
Cute wearable typography snobbery.
HTML5, ARIA Roles, and Screen Readers in May 2010 — Research — Accessible Culture
Test results for screen readers navigating content that uses new HTML5 elements and ARIA roles.
WAI-ARIA Schemata
There is a doctype for HTML4 + ARIA but "This DTD is made available only as a bridging solution for applications requiring DTD validation but not using HTML 5."
Bruce Lawson’s personal site : HTML5 details element, built-in and bolt-on accessibility
An excellent piece by Bruce on why the details element needs to be in HTML5.
Techno-utopian fail - The National Newspaper
Don't be too proud of this technological terror you have created.
HTML 5–What I’m Watching at Wendy Chisholm
Wendy gives some commentary from her ringside seat at the theatre of HTML5.
as days pass by, by Stuart Langridge — A WAI-ARIA “stylesheet”
Stuart has an interesting take on ARAI attributes. Why can't they be set declaratively in an external file in the same way as we set styles?
Using WAI ARIA Landmark Roles - The Paciello Group Blog
A guide to using ARIA roles from the mighty Steve Faulkner.
northtemple - JavaScript and screen readers
An in-depth look at the intersection of JavaScript and screen readers, concentrating on events in particular.
Call for Review: Updated WAI-ARIA Specification from Shawn Henry on 2008-08-06 (w3c-wai-ig@w3.org from July to September 2008)
Shawn at the W3C wants feedback on the ARIA working draft, particularly "feedback on host language embedding, that is, how ARIA is implemented in HTML, XHTML, SVG, and other host languages." If you don't chime in now, don't bitch later.
Introduction to WAI ARIA - Opera Developer Community
A good overview of ARIA from the mighty Gez Lemon. There seems to be quite a bit of overlap with some HTML5 ideas here.
Update on WebKit accessibility support (Re: WebKit release cycle and dep
The last piece is falling into place. IE8 has ARIA support, Mozilla has ARIA support ...and now WebKit is getting there. Excellent!
Juicy Studio: WAI-ARIA in HTML
How to get ARIA working in HTML (no namespaces in HTML, remember). Once again, Gez is providing superb documentation in the area of JavaScript and accessibility.
AIGA - Talking with Jason Santa Maria: An Event Apart, #04
Stan talks about the upcoming Event Apart in Philadelphia.
The Helvetica Meditations
Here's one for Joe Clark. Helvetica (and some Arial) found in England.