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	<title>Access Matters</title>
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	<description>Seeking Best Accessibility Practices</description>
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		<title>Vote for this SXSW Panel Idea:  Extremely Rapid Web Prototyping</title>
		<link>http://www.access-matters.com/2010/08/12/vote-sxsw-panel-idea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Easton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Vote for this SXSW Panel Idea
<a href="http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/8013">Extremely Rapid Web Prototyping: Building Your Ideas Quickly </a>]]></description>
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		<title>Transition</title>
		<link>http://www.access-matters.com/2010/02/06/transition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.access-matters.com/2010/02/06/transition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Easton</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.access-matters.com/?p=106</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since publishing the previous post, a fellow has stepped up and volunteered to continue Access-Matters. The domain name and the existing content of this blog become Anthony Ettinger&#8217;s later today.
Anthony Ettinger is a web developer and UI engineer with an interest in accessibility.
Anthony may or may not continue hosting the blog&#8217;s content. He may or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks for All the Fish</title>
		<link>http://www.access-matters.com/2010/01/29/thanks-for-all-the-fish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Easton</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.access-matters.com/?p=102</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been over two years since I retired from my last accessibility employment. I kept this blog around just in case I decided to continue accessibility consulting, go freelancing, etc. 
My stint in accessibility consulting brought me many wonderful friends, colleagues and acquaintances. It also gave me the opportunity to help improve the web a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clarifying ALT Text for WordPress Bloggers and Developers</title>
		<link>http://www.access-matters.com/2009/09/29/clarifying-alt-text-for-wordpress-bloggers-and-developers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.access-matters.com/2009/09/29/clarifying-alt-text-for-wordpress-bloggers-and-developers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Easton</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.access-matters.com/?p=93</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Coming out of retirement briefly, I write to support Glenda Watson Hyatt who yesterday lamented that WordPress still doesn&#8217;t get the very first accessibility requirement right. Bluntly, at release 2.8.4, WordPress still does not do ALT text correctly. Bloggers inserting images into their WordPress blogs are not being well served. Good craftsmen everywhere are taught [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Test case: Speaking Special Characters</title>
		<link>http://www.access-matters.com/2008/10/28/test-case-speaking-special-characters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.access-matters.com/2008/10/28/test-case-speaking-special-characters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Easton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A visitor, Ben Boyle, recently wrote that he was surprised when OSX Voiceover announced a series of three periods as &#8220;elipsis.&#8221; It is a surprisingly accurate interpretation of a simple character string.
That got Ben to wondering about how other characters, and special encodings, are announced.  Ben put together a selection of special characters and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Target lawsuit settled - exactly as it should be</title>
		<link>http://www.access-matters.com/2008/08/29/target-lawsuit-settled-exactly-as-it-should-be/</link>
		<comments>http://www.access-matters.com/2008/08/29/target-lawsuit-settled-exactly-as-it-should-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Easton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Preface: Visitors who have been here before might remember that I once worked as an Accessibility Consultant for IBM. I retired early this year after an extraordinary 40 year career with IBM. What follows are my own opinions and should not in any way be attributed to IBM.
There was no &#8220;settled law&#8221; when the suit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Off left&#8221; banned by Google?</title>
		<link>http://www.access-matters.com/2008/04/19/off-left-banned-by-google/</link>
		<comments>http://www.access-matters.com/2008/04/19/off-left-banned-by-google/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Easton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hidden text can be a spammer&#8217;s haven.
Years ago, when screen readers were at release 4.0, they started to change and actually pay attention to display:none.  I ran a series of tests back then and knew exactly how every screen reader behaved. I was one of the earliest advocates of hiding helpful text off to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Very quiet at Access Matters</title>
		<link>http://www.access-matters.com/2008/04/18/very-quiet-at-access-matters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.access-matters.com/2008/04/18/very-quiet-at-access-matters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Easton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The post just previous to this one is dated Jan 22.  What you don&#8217;t see is &#8220;2007.&#8221;  That&#8217;s right 15 months ago.  What happened to cause blogging to subside?
In January 2007, I changed jobs.  No, it was not to a different employer, but my sixth or seventh unique job at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improving accessibility for today&#8217;s AJAX - To hack or not?</title>
		<link>http://www.access-matters.com/2007/01/22/improving-accessibility-for-todays-ajax-to-hack-or-not/</link>
		<comments>http://www.access-matters.com/2007/01/22/improving-accessibility-for-todays-ajax-to-hack-or-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Easton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a hack for JAWS.  Should we use it?  Is it useful beyond JAWS?]]></description>
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		<title>Simple AJAX Test 1a</title>
		<link>http://www.access-matters.com/2007/01/22/simple-ajax-test-1a/</link>
		<comments>http://www.access-matters.com/2007/01/22/simple-ajax-test-1a/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Easton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This test builds upon Simple AJAX Test #1 by extending it with a &#8220;hacK&#8221; to better support screen readers. It uses Gez Lemon and Steve Faulkner&#8217;s updateBuffer technique as published in their article &#8220;Improving AJAX applications for JAWS users.&#8221; Is it only for JAWS, or will it make a difference for others too?
This link is [...]]]></description>
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