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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’m going to take a slightly different twist with some posts here as I concede that the many can accomplish far more than a few.  I find and read so many great posts that I didn’t think it was fair to limit the knowledge we pass to you simply because it came from another source.  [...]

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Inspect32 is a tool from Microsoft that enables a developer to verify that information is being correctly exposed through MSAA (Microsoft Active Accessibility). MSAA is an information source for an assistive technology. As a developer or tester, by verifying that the “Name” property is being passed through, you will be able to ensure that screen [...]

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As my wife Laura can attest, I’ve been burning the midnight oil recently working on my secret project that involves a lot of Adobe ColdFusion.  I’ve been an on-again-off-again CF author for some time, first working with ColdFusion 4 (or was it 3?) back in 1998 when I put together the CAVNET site for my friend [...]

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I created some video trainings for Microsoft about creating a Microsoft UI Automation based screen reader. They demonstrate what the new technology can do using a reader for the New York Times. It was fun to work with the New York Times Reader as it is a very cutting edge application built with [...]

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I will be attending the Scripting Enabled conference next weekend to work on accessibility solutions for currently inaccessible content. I think the idea of the conference is great, bring a bunch of technology people together with people working in various disability communities with current issues and try to create a solution in a weekend. [...]

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If you are a software tester or a Software Quality Assurance (SQA) person then you have no doubt written bug reports. The reports, which are also called defect reports, are the medium used to transfer your knowledge about the bug to those who will be tasked with fixing it. This report will first go to [...]

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