Posted under 1194.22 & Legal & Policy & section 508
Written by: Mike Adams
I hadn’t really thought about it but our posts focus on a lot of specific accessibility issues. That being said we haven’t gotten too deep into the conception of accessibility and the guidelines, rules and/or regulations themselves.
I thought maybe it was a good time to put up a few posts that just lay out some [...]
Posted under Accessibility and JAWS & Accessibility and MS Office & Keyboard Shortcuts
Written by: Mike Adams
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 [...]
Read more: Outlook-Windows and JAWS shortcut keys...Posted under Legal & Policy
Written by: Ken Nakata
I’ve stopped babbling about techno stuff and going back to what I do best– being a legal policy wonk on IT accessibility. In a previous post, I blogged about the Target suit and promised I’d get back to it. Well, I still haven’t had a chance to really focus on that, but one point that [...]
Read more: Web Accessibility: Unruh and ADA Title III...Posted under Developer & Development
Written by: Ken Nakata
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 [...]
Read more: ColdFusion and Accessibility...Posted under Developer & Office User
Written by: Thomas Logan
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 [...]
Read more: How to Build a UI Automation Screen Reader...Posted under Developer
Written by: Thomas Logan
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. [...]
Read more: Scripting Enabled...Posted under Developer & Testing
Written by: Jeff Singleton
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 [...]
Read more: Writing Complete and Effective Bug/Defect Reports...Posted under Accessibility in the News & Legal & Policy
Written by: Ken Nakata
When I awoke this morning, a colleague of mine from the east coast called to tell me incredible news– the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) settled their long-standing lawsuit against Target Corporation for its inaccessible website for over $6 million! This is really big news that ends two and a half years of bitter [...]
Read more: Target Website Accessibility Lawsuit Settles Today!...Posted under Accessibility and MS Office & Accessibility and PDF
Written by: Jeff Singleton
Overview
Many Microsoft Word documents are exported to PDF files for the purpose distribution to a wide range of users. How well a Word document converts to a PDF file has a lot to do with the document design which is also going have a bearing the accessibility of the document.
Below are some suggestions on how [...]
Posted under Office User
Written by: Mike Adams
Data accessibility is becoming a very critical part of software development but I think many of us forget to address accessibility where it is most common in our day to day computer use. There are many different Microsoft Office applications so I’m really only going to address some accessibility issues in PowerPoint and Word in [...]
Read more: Adding Alt Text to Embedded Objects in Office...