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- "If you must use a dropdown menu, make sure it's keyboard friendly"
Dropdown menus (a.k.a. flyout or DHTML menus) are not on my personal list of favourite features to use on a website. Many others seem to like them though, and that's fine as long as such menus are implemented in an accessible way, which to a large extent means making them keyboard friendly […]
Roger Johansson, 456 Berea Street (2009-12-21) - "Parution officielle du référentiel AccessiWeb 2.0"
L'association BrailleNet est heureuse d'annoncer la publication officielle du référentiel AccessiWeb 2.0. Cette nouvelle version du référentiel AccessiWeb marque une évolution importante vers les normes internationales WCAG 2.0 dont elle est issue […]
AccessiWeb/BrailleNet (2009-12-17) - "Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA), Authoring Practices, and Implementation Guide Working Drafts Published"
The Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) published an updated Working Draft of WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications technical specification for making dynamic, interactive Web content accessible to people with disabilities […]
W3C (2009-12-15) - "Resources Supporting Web Accessibility Business Case - Share Yours"
Resources for Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization provides a first collection of statistics, case studies, and articles that support the business case for web accessibility. We are looking for additional case studies and resources; see 'Share Resources Supporting the Web Accessibility Business Case blog post' […]
WAI (2009-12-14) - "Nouvel outil de vérification du contraste des couleurs selon les WCAG 2.0"
Cela fait un an que les WCAG 2.0 ont acquis le statut de recommandation (qui fut ensuite traduite en français). Bon nombre d'évolutions et de changements se présentent par rapport aux WCAG 1.0, dont l'algorithme utilisé pour évaluer le contraste des couleurs […]
Victor Brito, BritoWeb (2009-12-12) - "Accessibilité au quotidien : Google innove par l'image et le mobile"
Google vient d'annoncer la sortie d'une nouvelle application pour les mobiles sous Androidanbsp;: Google Goggles. Il s'agit d'un outil innovant de recherche par l'image […]
Pierre Guillou, Ideose (2009-12-11) - "Discover new ways of thinking about accessibility"
As an employee of the W3C Web standards organization, you might think that I would say the most important thing to start with when addressing web accessibility is standards. I don't. I say the first step is learning how people with disabilities use the web. You might be surprised to learn that is the W3C's advice […]
Shawn Henry, W3C Blog (2009-12-09) - "Global Accessibility Policy - Technology Changes, Civil Rights Do Note"
The UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities addresses the rights of 650 million persons with disabilities and impacts two billion persons worldwide, including family members of persons with disabilities […]
Cynthia Waddell, E-Access Bulletin Live (2008-12-08) - "JAWS ate my tables"
Data Tables vs. Layout Tables. Screen readers treat data tables differently than layout tables. Layout tables are not identified and are read linearly as standard page content. Data tables, however, will be identified, the number or rows and columns read, and functionality provided for users to navigate through the table by cell […]
Jared Smith, WebAIM Blog (2009-12-02)
