Sur le Web, actualités accessibilité numérique, juillet 2009

Actualités du mois

• "Using Opera 10 Beta with VoiceOver"
  Support for the Mac native screen reader VoiceOver was added to Opera in version 9.5. This is a quick overview explaining what you can access using VoiceOver with Opera. I'm hoping it will be of use to people with screen readers and developers debugging content alike […]
  Ihenni (2009-07-29)
• "Just how accessible is SVG?"
  I've been dipping my toes into Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) lately and wondering how this can be made accessible and usable for all. It seems like a very under used technology which is a pity given it's potential to be more readable by assitive technologies such as screen readers, braille displays and screen magnification than other graphicy type solutions […]
  Ihenni (2009-07-23)
• "For Review: UAAG 2.0 Updated Working Draft"
  WAI has published an updated User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0 Working Draft with changes in the "Ensure that the user interface is operable" and Glossary sections. UAAG defines how browsers, media players, and other "user agents" should support accessibility for people with disabilities and work with assistive technologies. WAI encourages you to review UAAG 2.0 and submit any comments […]
  WAI (2009-07-23)
• "WCAG 2.0 and Link Colors"
  WCAG 2.0 color requirements. WCAG 2.0 requires that the foreground and background colors have a 4.5:1 contrast ratio at Level AA and a 7:1 contrast ratio at Level AAA. You can use our contrast checker tool to determine what the ratio is between any foreground and background color.WCAG 2.0 also requires (at Level A) that color not be used as the sole method of conveying content or distinguishing visual elements […]
  Jared Smith, WebAIM (2009-07-22)
• "The Inclusion Principle"
  Designers have always had a vital interest in affordance, a term Donald Norman made famous in The Design of Everyday Things and later brought to the user interface design community in Alan Cooper's About Face […]
  Margit Link-Rodrigue, ALA (2009-07-21)
• "La checklist d'accessibilité que je m'étais juré de ne pas rédiger"
  J'ai déjà dit de nombreuses fois qu'il n'existait pas de checklist qui puisse vous garantir à 100% un site accessible, même si on la suivait à la lettre. Il y a tout simplement trop de variables en jeu […]
  Aaron Cannon, traduction Frédéric Chotard, Pompage.net (2007-07-15)
• "Consultation européenne sur l'inclusion numérique du printemps 2009 : résultats !"
  Du 4 mars au 6 avril 2009, la Commission Européenne a invité, via le site internet "Your voice", ceux qui le souhaitaient à partager leur vues sur la place que "l'inclusion numérique" (e-inclusion) devrait tenir dans la future stratégie européenne pour la Société de l'information, stratégie qui prendra la rélève de l'initiative "i2010" […]
  Stéphanie Lucien-Brun, Créatif (2009-07-15)
• "Design accessible : Formulaires"
  Sixième billet d'une série portant sur les règles d'accessibilité à connaître pour concevoir graphiquement un site Web de manière conforme […]
  Émilie Burelle, Accessiblogue (2009-07-14)
• "Le langage des signes ouvre l'ordinateur à son environnement"
  Les universités de Leeds et d'Oxford veulent rendre une machine capable de lier un mot à son équivalent en langue des signes. Une telle initiative facilitera le développement de logiciels de robotique réceptifs à ce qui les entoure […]
  L'Atelier (2009-07-13)
• "Le RGAA passe en version 2.1"
  Le RGAA est maintenant disponible en version de travail 2.1, version publiée le 3 juillet 2009. La version définitive est annoncée pour le début du mois d'août […]
  DGME (2009-07-10)
• "Relationship Between Mobile Web (MWBP) and Web Content Accessibility (WCAG) Note Published"
  The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group and the WAI Education and Outreach Working Group have published Relationship between Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) as a W3C Working Group Note […]
  W3C (2009-07-09)
• "Refreshable Braille"
  When I present accessibility seminars or workshops, I usually ask those attending to indicate if they have seen a screen reader being used […]
  Roger Hudson, Accessites.org(2009-07-09)
• "New Tutorial on Flash Accessibility"
  We have a brand new tutorial to check out if you are interested in Flash accessibility. We worked with our good friends at Knowbility in Austin, TX, and Flash accessibility expert Thea Eaton of Doodledoo to create a very useful tutorial, which is itself built in Flash […]
  Andrew Kirkpatrick, Adobe Accessibility (2009-07-07)
• "Design accessible : Paragraphes"
  Cinquième billet d'une série portant sur les règles d'accessibilité à connaître pour concevoir graphiquement un site Web de manière conforme […]
  Émilie Burelle, Accessiblogue (2009-07-07)
• "InDesign Accessibility Best Practices"
  InDesign authors often ask about generating accessible PDF files. To help respond to this, we worked with David Blatner of InDesignSecrets.com to combine our accessibility experience with his deep knowledge of InDesign so that we could produce a document that would be useful to InDesign authors interested in accessibility […]
  Andrew Kirkpatrick, Adobe Accessibility (2009-07-06)
• "Du jamais 'entendu' au théâtre"
  Aller au théâtre sans pouvoir voir la pièce est source de frustrations. C'est pourquoi l'audiodescription permet aux spectateurs malvoyants ou non-voyants de profiter pleinement du spectacle […]
  Laurence Biron, En Marche (2009-07-02)
• "The WAI-ARIA Windows screen reader shootout"
  Firefox 3.5 has been released, and now it's time to take a look at what features of WAI-ARIA are being supported by which Windows screen reader […]
  Marco Zehe, Marco's accessibility blog (2009-07-01)