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 […]
A few weeks ago we announced the release of the new WAVE web site. Today, we’re happy to announce the release of a new, much improved version of the WAVE Firefox Toolbar. The WAVE Firefox Toolbar allows you to check the accessibility of any web page directly within the Firefox web browser. This version of […]
WebAIM is pleased to announce that a new version of the WAVE web accessibility evaluation tool was released today. This significant update reflects many months of work on WebAIM’s part to make WAVE more stable, powerful, and useful. Since the version 4 beta was launched just over a year ago, WAVE has been used to […]
