Our latest and greatest of the news stories floating around to do with web accessibility http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/webroundup Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:00:00 GMT Juicy Studio have updated their Web Accessibility toolbar to enable investigation of WAI-ARIA document landmark roles. http://juicystudio.com/article/examining-wai-aria-document-andmark-roles.php Great introductory article that explains via the use of a very appropriate chocolate peanut analogy the principles of progressive enhancement, that is separating web technologies into content and presentation to enable access from any browser. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/understandingprogressiveenhancement Technologies showcased at the 12th International Symposium on Wearable Computers included a wrist device for manual wheel chair users to help avoid muscle injury and a device for Alzheimers patients to help them recognise people they knew. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_590792.html Great quick reference on Accessibility for WCAG 1.0 and 2.0. http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081007/accessibility-heuristics/ How accessible are social networking sites? Feedback from the RNIB on this year's DConstruct conference, this year's title was "Designing The Social Web". http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/conferences/september-2008-conference-round-up-dconstruct-2008/#more-212 This Sunday the University of Reading will be running a Turing test to see if human judges can distinguish computers from humans. According to Alan Turing who published his original article on the subject of artificial intelligence in 1950 if a human can't tell the difference between another human and a machine then the machine is 'thinking'. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/oct/05/artificialintelligenceai New Yahoo Widgets are more accessible, Voicemails as text messages and Computer sight program... http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/webroundup106