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Podcast #85: Drupal 7 Accessibility

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Post date October 21, 2010
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Dennis speaks with Everett Zufelt (@ezufelt) on Drupal and the accessibility improvements in Drupal 7 which is now in beta. Drupal is an increasingly popular open-source content management system (CMS).

Download Web Axe Episode 85 (Drupal 7 Accessibility)

[Transcript of podcast 85]

Transcript sponsored by Accessibility DC (@AccessibilityDC), meetups on accessibility in the Washington, DC, area.

Awards

dot net magazine Best of the Web awards announce finalists October 20.
Nominate Accessible Twitter in the Mashable Awards.

Conferences

Next month is Accessing Higher Ground conference near Denver, Colorado.
Dennis will be giving a keynote address at Knowbility’s AccessU West conference in San Jose, California, January 2011.

Hot Topics

JetBlue sued for lack of accessibility in its website & kiosks. Filed by Law Office of Lainey Feingold (@LFLegal).
All jQuery Mobile components are ARIA accessible.
President Obama Signs Accessibility Act (21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010) by Andrew Kirkpatrick (@awkawk) of Adobe.
Meeting WCAG 2.0 with Flash from Adobe.
HTML5 accessibility, holes & fixes by Steve Faulkner and Slideshare presentation and Hans Hillen i.e. structure, form controls, canvas, audio/video.

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Podcast #79: CSUN 2010 Preview

Post author By Dennis
Post date March 6, 2010
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Dennis and guest Jennison Asuncion discuss the upcoming CSUN conference, formally titled The 25th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference. Discussion includes helpful hints about the conference, session previews, and special events. The event is March 22-27 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel in downtown San Diego, California.

Download Web Axe Episode 79 (CSUN 2010 Preview)

[transcript of podcast 79]

Roundup: Accessibility Links on Twitter

Post author By Dennis
Post date November 23, 2009
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Here’s a list of some great links relating to web accessibility going around Twitter last week.

An excellent, open, web accessibility curriculum from WaSP InterAct (@waspinteract)
Captioned Interview with Ken Harrenstein (Deaf) and T.V. Raman (Blind) both Engineers at Google.
AIR 2 Beta, Introducing Accessibility Support
Automatic captions in YouTube
Upcoming web accessibility training courses for professionals from the RNIB; 15-19 Feb 2010; Liverpool, UK.
Input for HTML5 needed: Do you find table summaries helpful?
Gov 2.0: Transparency without accessibility? Nearly 20 percent of Americans need sites such as Recovery.gov and Disability.gov to improve accessibility features.

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Podcast #75: Jeremy Keith Interview, Google Wave

Post author By Dennis
Post date October 18, 2009
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Ross interviews web guru Jeremy Keith; Dennis and Ross discuss news, articles, and Google Wave.

Download Web Axe Episode 75 (Jeremy Keith Interview, Google Wave)

Chatter

15 Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter via Nancy White
Interviewing Martha Lane Fox about Digital Inclusion by Sandi Wassmer (@SandiWassmer)

News and Links

Obama administration unveils Recovery.gov makeover (We reviewed original Recovery.gov site in Podcast #69.)
New WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey
Accessibility Review: PetsContained.com by Joe Dolson
How Many People is Your Website Alienating? (Ross’ article)

Accessibility Review of Google Wave

Google Wave Preview Accessibility Review by Jared Smith. Jared tactfully explains how web accessibility of Google Wave fails miserably. For example:

Alternative text is not provided for any images.
Background images are used to convey content.
Roles, states, and other accessibility properties are not defined.
There is no document or heading structure or semantics.
Form elements do not have labels or titles.
Keyboard focus indication is hidden, making keyboard navigation nearly impossible.
Keyboard focus is often trapped.
The application becomes unusable and unreadable when text size is increased only slightly.

Jeremy Keith Interview

Co-host Ross Johnson speaks with Jeremy Keith, Adactio.com, a web standards guru, author, and speaker. Here are some great Jeremy Keith links:

UPDATE

The podcast was originally cut off by a couple minutes at the end. It is now fixed. Full running time is about 1 hour and 12 minutes.

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Assistive Technology, Captivate, and Accessify

Post author By Dennis
Post date June 12, 2009
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Browse Assistive Technology – learn about all kinds of Assistive Technology for different types of disabilities.

Tips on Adobe Captivate Accessibility

What to do with Accessify? – Give Ian some ideas! (By the way, check out the Accessify post Interview with Accessible Twitter creator Dennis Lembree.)