GW Micro has posted a “Public Beta 1” invitation to try out Window Eyes 6.0. They’re offering a cost-free download that will expire at some future date. Some of the features they are highlighting are support for Powerpoint, Outlook calendars, Office 2007, and IE7/Skype. Worth a look, and a test drive.
This fine announcement is showing up all over the place. On Juicy Studio, on WaSP, on WebGraphics, and most importantly on the new site itself. Go visit the Web Accessibility Tool Consortium. Steve Faulkner, Gez Lemon, Makoto Ueki, and Mike Paciello have some very nice tools planned for us.
Chris Heilmann tells us why it is hard selling accessibility.
Yesterday, the W3C published updated drafts of the following WCAG 2.0 documents:
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Checklist
General Techniques for WCAG 2.0
HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0
CSS Techniques for WCAG 2.0
Client-side Scripting Techniques for WCAG 2.0
Read them and comment at: public-comments-wcag20@w3.org
Read other comments at the working groups’s archive.
Congratulations to Andy, Derek, Patrick, Bruce, Gez, Ian and Matt! Best wishes for influencing assistive technology publishers and CMS builders to move closer to web standards.
Just as the Web Standards Project (WaSP) a few years ago focused on gaining better support of standards in browsers, they now form a team to focus on accessibility improvements […]
Bob starts a collection of recordings so we can actually hear how screen readers behave.
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