Sur le Web, actualités accessibilité numérique, mars 2008
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- "Middle-Aged Users' Declining Web Performance"
Between the ages of 25 and 60, people's ability to use websites declines by 0.8% per year - mostly because they spend more time per page, but also because of navigation difficulties [...]
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox (31/03/08) - "How JAWS reads text"
Making public statements based on limited knowledge of an assistive technology and with little understanding of how it is used, can lead to incorrect conclusions and poor implementations [...]
Steve Faulkner, The Paciello Group Blog (27/03/08) - "Using titles on form fields",
Form elements provide a decent range of accessibility options: label elements match up label text with their corresponding field elements, fieldsets group together similar input elements and the legend provides a succinct title for these groupings of fields [...]
Accessibility Tips (25/03/08) - "Trois priorités de l'Aful pour le secrétaire d'Etat à l'Economie Numérique"
A son tour, l'Aful a réagi, en fin de semaine, à la nomination d'Eric Besson au poste de secrétaire d'Etat à l'Economie Numérique le 18 mars dernier [...]
Maryse Gros, Le Monde Informatique (25/03/08) - "Reference Card for Accessible PDF Creation from Word"
There is a lot of PDF that is generated though Adobe's PDFMaker plug-in for Microsoft Word. You can quite easily create PDF documents that meet the majority of accessibility needs with very little effort, if you know how [...]
Andrew Kirkpatrick, Adobe Accessibility Blog (20/03/08) - "Views From a Screen Reader User"
As it concerns using lists and other non-form structural elements to lay out web forms, my feelings have been known. They haven't changed, but after interviewing an experienced screen reader user about this very subject recently, I do have new insights into it [...]
Mike Cherim, Beast-Blog.com (25/03/08) - "Specifications, Standards, Guidelines and Recommendations"
By now, web standards should be something we are all used to [...]
Mike Cherim, Accessites.org (20/03/08) - "Handicap : l'accessibilité est une affaire de collaboration"
Microsoft et ATT veulent favoriser le développement de solutions technologiques ouvertes à tous via le partage d'informations [...]
L'Atelier (17/03/08) - "JAWS, Window-Eyes and Character References"
These test results present the spoken output from JAWS, version 8.0, and Window-Eyes, version 6.1, when reading the 252 character references specified in HTML 4.01 [...]
Jason Kiss, Accessible Culture (13/03/08) - "One Step Forwards, Two Steps Back?"
Despite rising awareness in the web development community of issues relating to access by people with disabilities, it appears that in one vital sector at least, things may be going backwards [...]
E-Access Blog (13/03/08) - "A WCAG 2.0 Implementation Site"
Over the past month I made mention - twice - of a site I was creating that was specifically meant to serve as a practical example of what an accessible web site is supposed to be like and serve the needs of its owner [...]
Mike Cherim, Beast-Blog.com (11/03/08) - "Wave toolbar and blog available"
In the six weeks since we launched WAVE 4.0 beta, over 100,000 accessibility reports have been run [...]
Jared Smith, WebAIM blog (08/03/08) - "IE8, Standards Compliance, and Aria"
After the events of this week, I have several fewer reasons to loathe Internet Explorer. It's not a real secret that I, like many other developers, have experienced a vast amount of frustration in attempts to build standards compliant, accessible web sites that work in Internet Explorer [...]
Jared Smith, WebAIM Blog (07/03/08) - "March 2008 Update: Moving WCAG 2.0 to the next stage"
As of the beginning of March 2008, the Working Group has resolved most of the 200+ editorial and technical comments on the second Last Call Working Draft of WCAG 2.0 [...]
WAI (05/03/08) - "Ajax accessibility for websites"
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is an innovative way of using existing technologies to create highly interactive web applications [...]
Webcredible (03/03/08)
