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29 June 2007

Life as a screen magnifier user

Paul McKee talks about using a screen magnifier (ZoomText) and what is easy and hard for him.  Essential reading.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/access20/2007/06/access_20_interview_paul_mckee_1.shtml

2007 Jodi Accessibility awards announced at British Museum

A Jodi Award for Excellence in Website Accessibility went to Prisoner 4099, a National Archives learning site created by blind and partially sighted students from across the country about Victorian crime. For the rest of the details, follow the link!
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/

The Tech Lab: Greg Papadopoulos

As part of a series inviting some of the world's leading technologists to speculate about the future, Greg Papadopoulos, chief technology officer of Sun Microsystems, calls for technology and design to be married to people's needs.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6225398.stm

The Art and Science of CSS

A nice review on the latest addition to the world of books on CSS.
http://books.slashdot.org/

 Shawn Henry: "Web Accessibility Guidelines Update"

Shawn Henry from the WAI gives an update on the Web Accessibility Guidelines. It’s a video but the only visual aspect is the slides she is talking about. It seems like a repeat of what she presented at @media.
http://video.yahoo.com/

The Web Accessibility Toolbar 2.0 beta is now available

It’s moved things around, had a redesign, and removed a few things. Like the quick link to the WCAG 1.0 Checkpoints. Very annoying! Any if anyone can find where they put the ‘show event handlers’ link, I’d really appreciate it.  They’ve not deleted it, sure not?!
http://www.paciellogroup.com/

Wheelchair antics

Unfortunately not a captioned video, this is a vid of a wheelchair user as a skater-boi doing mad stunts at a skate park. The first part is pretty scary, with him stacking it all over the place. But it does build to a pretty impressive finale.
http://www.liveleak.com/

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