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Considering the Case for Creating an International Society of Accessibility Professionals
Read ArticleThis is Part 2 of a blog series. The first was Web Accessibility and Coming of Age The 27th Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference will be held in San Diego between February 27 and March 3, 2012. On Tuesday of that week, the …
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Web accessibility and coming of age
Read ArticleKnowbility is 13 years old. Founded in February of 1999, we have become a teenager. It's often an awkward age for people, and lately I've wondered if Knowbility might also be subject to the same common struggles. Who are we? Who do we want to be? How do we fit …
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AccessU at CSUN 2012: Build Accessible HTML Structures
Read ArticleDenis Boudreau has spent the past ten years actively advocating for Web standards and accessibility and is co-editor of the recently-adopted Quebec government's Web accessibility standards that are based on WCAG 2.0. He is the acting president of AccessibilitéWeb, a …
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Use BAD for Good Examples of Accessibility in Action
Read ArticleWeb accessibility means designing pages and applications so that they can be used by everyone, including people with disabilities, some of whom use assistive technologies to browse the web. Accessibility is required by federal law in many instances and courts are broadening …
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AccessU at CSUN 2012: Building Accessible User Interfaces Using JavaScript and ARIA
Read ArticleTodd Kloots of Yahoo! will teach you how to build accessible, dynamic user interfaces for the Web. In this hands-on class (8:30 on Tuesday, February 28), you will learn how to use the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) specification to help build sites and …