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10 October 2008
Tool to validate ARIA markup
Juicy Studio have updated their Web Accessibility toolbar to enable investigation of WAI-ARIA document landmark roles.
Understanding progressive enhancement
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.
Wearable computers
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.
Accessibility Heuristics
Great quick reference on Accessibility for WCAG 1.0 and 2.0.
Feedback on DConstruct 2008
How accessible are social networking sites? Feedback and podcast links from the RNIB on this year’s DConstruct conference, this year’s title was “Designing The Social Web”.
Can we tell the difference between computers and humans?
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'.
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