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It’s important to note that PDF/UA is neither a spec to measure PDF content, like the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), nor an everyday authoring guide. It focuses on giving developers of PDF authoring tools and viewers, as well as vendors of assistive technologies that support PDF, critical information on how to build and present PDF content more accessibly. The goal is to make accessible PDFs easy to author and use, however they are produced.

The first ever website was published on August 6, 1991 and served up a page explaining the World Wide Web project and giving information on how users could setup a web server and how to create their own websites and web pages, as well as how they could search the web for information.

How it works

There are four “layers” of words that will be flying in, one after the other, making the previous one fade out. The letters will fly in rotating and get a little shake once they “smash” into their place.

The demo is best viewed in a browser that supports perspective.

Geoff Adams-Spink - the former BBC Age and Disability Correspondent - provides an overview of how users can adapt their computer setup.

As a free public service, the Bureau of Internet Accessibility scans web sites and provides a complete analysis of their accessibility, along with the broken links discovered, for free.

Web accessibility can sometimes be a controversial topic, but a fiery dialogue is a healthy sign of just how much people really care. While opinions may vary on specific issues, one thing is clear: Equal access to information is paramount in the digital age.

There are obvious expenses involved whenever an organization begins adopting accessibility which are diminished as accessibility as a topic is adopted and integrated into how things get done, but nobody truly knows what those costs are or how rapidly they’re diminished.

The Easy YouTube caption creator is designed to make it very simple to create a caption text file (.sub format) that you can then add to YouTube video files that you have uploaded.

As Web developers, we have an affinity for developing with JavaScript. Whatever the language used in the back end, JavaScript and the browser are the primary language-platform combination available at the user’s end. It has many uses, ranging from silly to experience-enhancing.

There has been much discussion, and some arguments, about how to determine the accessibility of websites. Unfortunately, this is often polarised around two simplistic choices: A compliance/conformance based approach that usually involves a checklist of criteria; or, some form of user testing by people who have different disabilities and/or who rely on different assistive technologies. Both approaches have their strength and limitations, and neither can provide a reliable declaration about the accessibility of a site on its own.

This post is a compilation of disability statistics from government agencies and researchers in the US, UK and Canada. The statistics shown have most impact on website use, and help assess the impact of accessibility problems, in terms of numbers of people affected, and likely commercial impact.

The schema.org site makes it appear as if you must pick sides and use Microdata if you want preferential treatment. This is a false choice!

I do not have all the answers and I would love to hear from anyone who can contribute to these ideas.

The presentation considered how many people over the age of 60 use the web, how much they use it and why they use it. It outlined some common issues older web users encounter and the general lack of awareness by them about how they can control the presentation of web content.

Worldspace FireEyes is an unprecedented, nextgen web accessibility tool that ensures both static and dynamic content within a web portfolio are compliant with standards such as Section 508, WCAG 1.0, and WCAG 2.0.

It’s time to kill off captchas and stop punishing users for trying to interact with our sites.

This post highlights 6 free and good books covering Web Accessibility, accessible content, accessible design and accessible typography . All are online HTML version. Some books has free PDF versions also.

A guide to understanding and implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0

W3C Working Group Note 14 October 2010

Accessibility for users with cognitive disabilities can be a far greater challenge than for those with other types of disabilities.

If you’re not familiar with the concept of POSH (plain old semantic HTML), the first thing to know is that producing semantic code that reflects content contextually (rather than stylistically) is a critical component of the web design process.

The Internet makes a vast amount of information available to people, but not always the way they need it presented. This is where Web Accessibility plays a crucial role.