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Re: Social media and 508

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From: John E. Brandt
Date: Nov 17, 2009 8:30AM

No point in re-inventing the wheel. There have been a lot of us out there
working on understanding the so-called Social Networks and accessibility.

Be aware that this area is in constant flux. Thing in SN change by the
minute some for the good; some for the bad, in terms of accessibility.

There are a number of folks working to make clients that bring the service
to all. For example Accessible Twitter http://www.accessibletwitter.com/

And there are LOTS of folks with disabilities out there using Social
Networking, particularly Twitter:
http://webaim.org/blog/twitter-accessibility-roundup/


A quick Google search brings up:

http://curbcut.net/accessibility/social-networking-accessibility/

http://www.accessifyforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=14039

http://juicystudio.com/article/accessibility-of-captcha.php

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/07/facebook-commits-to-making-social-netwo
rking-more-accessible-for-visually-challenged-users/

http://www.simplyraydeen.com/authors/115-jeff-bennett/339-accessible-social-
networking

My own article (probably needs to be updated)
http://www.mainecite.org/awd/accdocs/article8.html


http://webaccessibilityrambles.blogspot.com/

http://groups.drupal.org/node/19943


~j

John E. Brandt
jebswebs.com
Augusta, ME USA
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www.jebswebs.com


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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Cramer, Brian
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:49 AM
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Subject: [WebAIM] Social media and 508

Hello All,



We have a number of clients who want to create their own facebook,
flickr, and youtube areas. I am trying to raise the concern of 508 and
have put forth that in my opinion since the sites are being "used" by
the Federal government to convey their information that 508 inherently
applies. After receiving a response of "well such and such agency is
doing it" or "we'll make it compliant" I feel I'm in a debate I'd like
to have more background on. I haven't done any assessment of the various
sites as of yet. Before doing so, I wanted to see if others have had
similar project experiences or have done any assessment of the three
social media sites mentioned above.



Thanks,

Brian Cramer