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Accessibility causes mistakes
Television, and the BBC, in particular have had a long tradition with utilising sign language. More and more programmes now feature an interpretor in the corner. Even in children’s television, sign language has a history. However a recent report over on Digital Spy Kids TV host accused of swearing in sign shows that increasing [...]
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Accessible Game Competition
I’ve just heard that an accessible game coding contest has been set up by Donation Coder. You’ll have to hurry though as the closing date is the 22nd of December!
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GAWDS on zdnet
The Guild of Accessible Web Designers get a mention in a ZDnet article - Web 2.0: A step backwards for accessibility?. I assume they meant to link to the GAWDS website but looks like they couldn’t manage to code the link correctly:
<A title=”Guild of Accessible Web Designers” htm=”http://www.gawds.org/”>Guild of Accessible Web Designers”</A>
Earlier in the article [...]
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Firefox 2 - yet another accessibility bug
Only installed Firefox 2 yesterday and already I have found some quirks with it.
Go to Google do a search on anything you like, I was searching for and try and hover the mouse over the sponsored links. The first link in the list seems to be OK but the others become inaccessible to mouse [...]
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Inaccessible sites
Web accessibility is a growing field, the rest of the world just needs to catch up with the few that are dedicated to it. However there are various sites out there that laud and honour accessible sites. I think it is about time that one is started for inaccessible sites.
So if your site isn’t [...]
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Google introduces Closed Captioning
Finally, Caption Playback. Ken Harrenstien is deaf, and he works for Google. He obviously had a vested interest in this particular project.
Of course a side benefit is that it will allow for easier searching through video’s to find possible topics of interest. Let’s hope this takes off to benefit everyone.
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