Update: The United States signed the treaty on July 30, 2009. This Friday, July 24th, at 4:45pm, President Obama will indicate his intention to sign onto the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The document will likely be delivered to the UN on July 30th. This is a historic occasion—one […]
This fall marks WebAIM’s 10th anniversary. During that time, the WebAIM team has evolved and changed a lot. The work WebAIM does is truly a team effort from a diverse group of men and women with whom it has been an honor to work and become friends. I’m especially happy to see two employees that […]
In the earlier years of web accessibility (pre-1999 to 2004), screen readers were buggy and temperamental. They would sometimes respond erratically to even simple content. Several of the out-dated recommendations of WCAG 1.0 were put in place to address these screen reader-specific issues (see almost any checkpoint that starts with “Until user agents…”), but problems […]
I’m a bit of a newcomer to Twitter. In the few months I’ve been online (follow me at @jared_w_smith), Twitter has become an indispensable tool for networking, communicating, and information gathering and sharing. There is a strong accessibility community on Twitter. In the spirit of The Accessibility Blog Roundup, below are 30 of the tweeple […]
Two years ago I published The Great Accessibility Blog Roundup. At the time, I was relatively new to following blogs and thought it would be helpful to post the most useful and informative blogs I had found. Now, it’s time to update the list. Below are many of the accessibility blogs I currently follow. While […]
