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The CKEditor is the newest release of the popular open source web page text editor formally known as the FCKEditor. Unfortunately the previous name was often misrepresented as the [bad word] editor. So the name has been updated and hopefully this will avoid any unpleasant or offensive connections in the future.
I first became aware of [...]

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I’ve run across a few issues and concerns lately that talk about JAWS reading the <Title> attributes in IE but not in Firefox.  I had to spend a little time researching this one but here is the gist of it…
The fact that IE works is actually an old IE bug and some dumb luck.  You’ll [...]

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Keyboard shortcuts aren’t just for users of Assistive Technologies such as the screen reader JAWS.  Most people could benefit by simply learning to use the keyboard a little more instead of relying solely on a mouse.  Call me crazy but I swear my shoulder ache’s at the end of the day thanks to that mouse [...]

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A client of ours recently came to us with a problem. They wanted to add a watermark to their document that indicated the document was a DRAFT copy. Since this particular client needed to make sure their documents met the Section 508 requirements it was important that screen readers such as JAWS or Window Eyes [...]

Read more: Adding Alt Text to a Watermark in Microsoft Word...

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