Industry news

16 August 2007

Techshare

Kath is mentioned among the list of presenters at this year’s Techshare conference, which is now open for booking.
http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/

AccessIT

The Irish NDA IT accessibility guidelines site AccessIT has been expanded and revamped. It's got accessibility guidelines for various technologies, a procurement toolkit (which is – in their words – “like PAS78, only much more”), guidance for web designers with code snippets and videos, stuff about auditing and much more besides.
http://accessit.nda.ie/

A Glimmer of Hope with AJAX for JAWS users?

A snippet about what we might expect with JAWS 9.0 – it’s looking hopeful.
http://accessify.com/

Stepping stone to greater understanding

The US organisation WebAIM, together with the National Center on Disability and Access to Education, have received a grant to develop a tool to help web developers consider issues of cognitive disability and learning difficulties in their designs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/

Silverlight Accessibility

I was in contact with one of the developers recently about the accessibility of Silverlight. He says that if you’ve got specific accessibility questions, jump onto the forums over at the official site. Sounds like they’re really conscious of the issues though, so it’s all good.
http://silverlight.net

The cold, cold heart of Web 2.0

An interesting look at the economising of the social networking aspects of Web 2.0.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/

A great CSS reference

Has some elements to do with styling sounds that I’d never heard of before. Interesting, and a good quick reference guide.
http://xhtml.com/en/css/reference/

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