Hat tip to Joe Dolson for bringing this one to light. The National Federation of the Blind and three blind State of Texas employees filed a lawsuit this week against Oracle and the State of Texas. The suit claims that they were not provided adequate access to software used in their employment functions. Despite a […]
2006 was a year of great change for WebAIM. As we enter 2007, we thought we would take a few minutes to review last year and present some of our thoughts about what’s to come in the new year. Here are a few highlights from 2006 and glimpses into 2007: In June, we launched our […]
For the last several years, we have been using the Amazon.com web site to demonstrate functionality of WAVE. We do this because it is a complex site that has some accessibility features, many accessibility problems, and frankly, because the accessibility of the site seems to change almost daily. We’re never quite sure what Amazon developers […]
Roger Johansson has an excellent blog posting on “Click here and other meaningless link phrases“. Screen reader users often (and very often on home pages, site maps, and link indexes) open a list of all of the links on a web page. The link label (everything between the <a> and the </a>) is read for […]
The Washington Post has an interesting article yesterday about teaching computers to recognize images. Computers do not currently have the ability to determine whether an image of a cat is actually a cat or whether it is a dog, a human, or a telephone booth. But this new technology is teaching computers to better recognize […]
