Sur le Web, actualités accessibilité numérique, avril 2008
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- La DGME se réorganise
Arrêté du 22 avril 2008 portant organisation de la direction générale de la modernisation de l'Etat [...]
JO (30/04/08) - "Le W3C invite les développeurs à mettre en œuvre WCAG 2.0"
Aujourd'hui, le W3C annonce que les directives d'accessibilité au contenu Web (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) WCAG 2.0 sont à la disposition des développeurs et concepteurs qui souhaiteraient les tester dans leurs applications et contenus Web [...]
W3C (30/04/08) - "Are Ajax and Accessibility mutually exclusive?"
Peter of ATRC and an a11y community member, pointed me to a blog post titled "Stop using Ajax!", written by OperaDev community member James "Brothercake" Edwards [...]
Marco's accessibility Blog (29/04/08) - "508 and Higher Ed."
The National Center on Disability and Access to Education (NCDAE), a partner, is currently involved in a project to help educational institutions improve the accessibility of their online content [...]
Jon Whiting, WebAIM Blog (28/04/08) - "Developer Beware: Using Flash to Detect Screen Readers"
The facility to detect some Assistive Technology by using Flash has been around since ActionScript 1.0 and Flash Player 6. The method has usually been referred to as a way to 'detect screen readers' [...]
Steve Faulkner, The Paciello Group Blod (28/04/08) - "Swedish National Guidelines for Public Sector Websites"
The Swedish National Guidelines for Public Sector Websites takes an integrated approach to usability, accessibility and standardization [...]
Standards Schmandards (28/04/08) - "Stop using Ajax!"
A while back I got into a forum discussion over the accessibility of Captcha systems. That isn't what this article is about (in fact it wasn't what the thread was about either, but I soon changed that!) [...]
Brothercake, Opera Developer Community (24/04/08) - "Pourquoi le site tic-croissance.com est une honte pour les participants et partenaires des assises du numérique"
Je suis un peu pressé, mais devant tant d'incompétence sur un sujet aussi important, je n'arrive pas à me taire. Quelques constats, pas rédigés [...]
Standblog, Tristan Nitot (23/04/08) - UN Ratifies Disability Treaty
On April 3rd, the UN's Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) received the necessary 20 member state ratifications for the Treaty to move into implementation [...]
Cyndi Rowland, WebAIM Blog (17/04/08) - "Blind users still struggle with 'maddening' computing obstacles"
See video of Narrator screen reader in action. Put your graphical user interface to this test: Adjust the contrast on your display until the screen is completely black [...]
Lamont Wood, Computerworld (16/04/08) - "Avoiding redundant title attributes"
The title attribute is one of the overlooked attributes in the HTML collection. It's most often used to mark up abbreviations with their expanded forms. Sometimes it's used to rout around Internet Explorer's tooltip behaviour of image alt attributes [...]
Accessibility Tips (14/04/08) - "A validator is not an accessibility evaluation tool?"
Currently, the most active discussion thread on the HTML working group's public mailing list, public-html, is one regarding the issue of whether in HTML5 the alt attribute should always be required on images [...]
W3C Q&A Weblog (14/04/08) - "Character references: widening screen readers'eyes"
I ran some tests a couple of years ago that looked at how mathematical character references are handled by screen readers, specifically using default configuration in JAWS and Window-Eyes [...]
Jon Gibbins, dotjay (13/04/08) - "Accessible Data Visualization with Web Standards"
We've been talking about Web 2.0 for so long now it's already passé to argue about what it means and what it doesn't. But one thing's for sure, there's a lot of data out there on the web these days. And as web designers, we're designing a lot of data-driven sites [...]
Wilson Miner, A List Apart (08/04/08) - "The plague of outline:0"
I am seeing an increasingly alarming trend in the implementation of CSS on web sites - the inclusion of outline:0 or outline:none [...]
Jared Smith, WebAIM Blog (07/04/08) - Captioning Sucks!
We launch. This site, while small, has been in the making for several months, and represents a great deal of effort on the part of the Open & Closed Project and the site's designer, Noel Jackson of Eight6 [...]
Open & Closed Project (01/04/08)
