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		<title>Screen Reader User Survey #4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fourth WebAIM screen reader user survey is now available at http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey4/. The survey results provide invaluable data for web developers, disability advocates, and standards bodies. Please take the survey and spread the word. You can view the results of our previous surveys at: Original Survey &#8211; January 2009 Survey #2 &#8211; September 2009 Survey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accessibility Certification: The Devil is in the Details</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past month WebAIM staff had an opportunity to attend CSUN 2012. As always, CSUN was a great opportunity to see what others are doing, share what we’ve been up to, and connect with good friends in the accessibility world. Prior to the conference, the Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA) hosted an all-day meeting to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assistive Technology Experiment: High Contrast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several months ago I decided to spend some time using a few common, but often overlooked, assistive technologies and then report on my experiences and insights. The first two posts of this series presented my recommendations on designing for users of ZoomText and Dragon NaturallySpeaking. As the final part of this series, I will cover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WCAG Next</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 became a W3C Recommendation (code for &#8220;finalized specification&#8221;) in December 2008. I am proud to have my name listed as a contributor to WCAG 2.0. All of WebAIM&#8217;s current clients are working toward WCAG conformance. None of them are seriously considering only the antiquated Section 508, the update of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webaim.org/blog/wcag-next/</link>
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		<title>Alexa 100 Accessibility Errors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Karl Groves recently published automated web accessibility test data for many of the Alexa Top 100 web sites. The results paint a rather stark picture of web accessibility. We agree with Karl&#8217;s suggestion that while automated testing is not a direct indicator of true accessibility issues, &#8220;poor performance in automated testing is strongly correlated with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webaim.org/blog/alexa-100-accessibility-errors/</link>
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		<title>Semantic Automation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Semantic automation is when user agents, such as browsers and screen readers, create meaning and relationships where the presented meaning and relationships are missing, ambiguous, or incorrect. In short, it&#8217;s applying algorithms to try and fix things that are probably broken. It&#8217;s computers guessing for good. In a very simple example, it is Google&#8217;s &#8220;Did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webaim.org/blog/semantic-automation/</link>
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		<title>Assistive Technology Experiment: Dragon NaturallySpeaking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a continuation of a series of posts about my personal quest to learn more about some common assistive technologies. In my first post, I outlined my experiences with ZoomText. Since then, I have become more familiar with the speech recognition software Dragon NaturallySpeaking (Premium) by Nuance. Using Dragon Speech recognition software such as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webaim.org/blog/at-experiment-dragon/</link>
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		<title>Rocket Surgery and Accessibility User Testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When people ask us about accessibility user testing, we usually say, &#8220;Don&#8217;t do it.&#8221; Instead, usability testing with users with disabilities is almost always more effective. Rocket Surgery Made Easy I spoke at the Plain Talk conference last week where I heard presentations on usability testing from Steve Krug and Nicole Burton. Steve&#8217;s book, Rocket [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webaim.org/blog/accessibility-user-testing/</link>
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		<title>Infographic: Web Accessibility for Designers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The focus of web accessibility is often on web development &#8211; the things that happen in HTML, CSS, or JavaScript after a site has been designed visually. Optimal accessibility should start much earlier, as part of the visual design process. We have created an infographic that highlights a few important principles of accessible design. Select [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://webaim.org/blog/accessibility-for-designers/</link>
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		<title>Web Accessibility and SEO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is the value of finding content if the user experience and accessibility of that content is poor? Does it matter how accessible content is, if nobody ever finds it? Web accessibility and search engine optimization (SEO) are both about getting relevant content to users. Accessible content and search engine optimized content are both machine [...]]]></description>
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