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août 2008
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- "Les sites de e-commerce doivent être accessibles aux Etats-Unis"
Avant la fin du procès pour discrimination, un accord vient d'être signé aux Etats-Unis entre les supermarchés Target et la Fédération Nationale des Aveugles (NFB). Le procès avait été lancé du fait de l'inaccessibilité du site Web marchand de Target […]
Braillenet/AccessiWeb (2008-08-28) - "Target condamné pour l'inaccessibilité de son site aux non-voyants"
L'issue du procès de Target.com contre la NFB (association de non-voyants américaine) est désormais connue, comme l'annonce ce billet du blog de WebAIM (vous pouvez aussi lire cette synthèse sur le site des Disability Rights Advocates) […]
Olivier, Webyboom (2008-08-28) - "What the Target settlement should mean to you"
It's a question many of us in accessibility have been waiting for years to be answered. Does the Americans with Disabilities Act apply to the web? […]
Matt May, The Web Standards Project (2008-08-28) - "Target lawsuit settled"
Target and the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) have settled the lawsuit regarding accessibility of the Target.com web site. You can read the final settlement here […]
Jared Smith, WebAIM Blog (2008-08-27) - "JAWS 10 public beta's Firefox 3 support: A review"
In the August issue of the "FS Cast" podcast, Freedom Scientific announced the soon-to-be expected availability of JAWS 10 public beta. They also demoed many of the new features, like the automatic forms mode switching […]
Marco's accessibility blog (2008-08-26) - "JAWS version 10 with WAI-ARIA live region support!"
I for one have been waiting to hear this news. One of the big 2 commercial screen readers will now support WAI-ARIA live regions […]
The Paciello Group Blog (2008-08-22) - "Accessibility 2.0 Podcasts and Transcriptions available"
My talk at the Accessibility 2.0 conference by AbilityNet in London on 25th of April 2008. I explain what mistakes people make when trying to sell accessibility and which accessibility enhancements really are just overhead […]
Chris Heilmann, Wait till I come! (2008-08-22) - "Rapport sur les apports de la science et de la technologie à la compensation du handicap"
5 000 000 de personnes devraient porter des prothèses auditives, 1,8 million utilisent un fauteuil roulant… Le vieillissement de la population conduira, en 2040, à une augmentation de 50 % du nombre de personnes âgées dépendantes. Ces chiffres permettent de saisir l'enjeu représenté par les aides techniques au handicap […]
La Documentation française (2008-08-22) - "Réduire la résolution permet le langage des signes sur mobile"
MobileASL permet aux sourds muets de discuter en langage des signes sur leur portable. La qualité des échanges vidéo est partiellement dégradée, ce qui les rend possible sur les réseaux les moins rapides. […]
L'Atelier (2008-08-22) - "Web Accessibility - Beijing Olympics: Revisiting The Errors Of The Past"
The Olympic Games are currently being followed avidly by sports fans, journalists and politicians worldwide, many of them using the official Beijing 2008 website (http://en.beijing2008.cn/), the most comprehensive source of information on events […]
Majeed Saleh, E-Access Blog (2008-08-18) - "Assistive Technology: a video tour of accessibility"
Getting our own experiences of accessibility inspires us to think and validates what we do with accessibility in mind. I've started putting together this list of videos that demonstrate accessibility in order to help others gain insight into how assistive technology is used, particularly with regards to the Web, and its value to those who use it […]
Jon Gibbins, dotjay's lab (2008-08-15) - "Response to article in A List Apart"
Lisa Herrod's article for A List Apart, "Deafness and the User Experience" (ALA 265, 2008.08.12), makes incorrect attributions about the Open & Closed Project. The Open & Closed Project isn't doing what the article claims we are […]
Open & Closed Project (2008-08-12) - "Deafness and the User Experience"
How many times have you been asked this question: if you had to choose, which would you prefer to be: deaf or blind? The question illustrates the misconception that deafness is in some way the opposite of blindness-as though there's some sort of binary representation of disability […]
Lisa Herrod, A List Apart (2008-08-12) - "Beijing Olympic website Part Two: internationalisation (#080808)"
With all eyes on the Beijing for the 2008 Olympics I thought I'd publish a few observations of how well the official Beijing Olympic 2008 website works for international users. This post accompanies one I wrote about the accessibility of the Beijing 2008 website and flags where the cross overs exist with accessibility, localisation and internationalisation […]
Web Access Centre Blog (2008-08-08) - "Wrangling Widgets"
Sooner or later, you're bound to come across an article, or blog entry, that talks about text size widgets. What exactly are these widgets and are they of any real use? […]
Mel Pedley, Accessites.org (2008-08-08) - New: Firefox 3 with Screen Readers FAQ+ online!
After the release of Firefox 3, it became apparent that there were many questions that came up again and again on the various mailing lists […]
Marco's accessibility blog (2008-08-07) - "En finir avec les Captchas visuels?"
Tout part d'un message de Pierre Reynaud, posté sur la liste Accessibilité-numérique. Pierre n'est pas content, et on le comprend: il se retrouve confronté à un système anti-spam […]
Webyboom (2008-08-06) - "Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) Working Draft Published"
The Protocols and Formats Working Group published an updated Working Draft of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA). WAI-ARIA defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities […]
W3C (2008-08-06) - "A Brave New alt in {HTML}"
After much data crunching Of 'billions of web pages', in his infinite wisdom the King of HTML5 has given us a whole new way of using the alt attribute in HTML5 […]
Steve Faulkner, The Paciello Group Blog (2008-08-04) - "Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Literature Review"
WebAIM readers interested in ways they may improve the design of web content to better include individuals with cognitive or learning disabilities may be interested in reading the results of a review of the literature completed by WebAIM […]
Jared Smith, WebAIM (2008-08-04) - "Introduction to WAI-ARIA"
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) was not originally designed to create web applications. HTML has a limited set of interface controls, and is based around a sequential client server communication model […]
Gez Lemon, Dev.Opera (2008-08-01)
