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WebAIM presentations at CSUN

The CSUN Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference is one of the biggest accessibility conferences of the year. This year, WebAIM is giving three presentations at CSUN. If you’re going to CSUN this year, we hope to see you there. Details below. Advanced Web Accessibility Evaluation with WAVE Wednesday, March 12, 2008 – 1:50-2:50 PM […]

Introducing WAVE 4.0

WebAIM is pleased to announce the release of WAVE 4.0. We invite you to test WAVE and provide feedback, recommendations, and bug reports on this beta version at this time. What is WAVE? WAVE is a web accessibility evaluation tool. Rather than providing a complex technical report, WAVE shows your original web content with embedded […]

JAWS license not developer friendly

For years, we have recommended to developers that they download the trial version of JAWS to perform basic evaluation of the accessibility of their web sites. Our recent, and quite popular, article on using JAWS to evaluate web content again makes this recommendation. The demo version (which runs for 40 minutes per session) can be […]

When “inaccessible” isn’t

Last month, I gave a lab at Accessing Higher Ground titled "Using JAWS to test for web accessibility."  This lab is the basis of our recent JAWS tutorial. During this lab, I presented a couple of "inaccessible" examples that I think surprised some of the people in the group. Specifically, I showed a data table […]

Learning from screen readers

I recently finished a tutorial on using JAWS to evaluate web content. This article provides an overview for beginners on how to use screen readers to evaluate the accessibility of web content.   Many people seem to treat screen reader testing as something that should be left to experts or to blind screen reader users. […]