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 the Windows [...]
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. I [...]
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 [...]
Read more: Prepare Your Word 2003 Document to be an Accessible PDF...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...Posted under Testing
Written by: Mike Adams
Testing Style Sheets is the easy part, figuring how to do it can take a little more time. I’ll do my best with this blog to keep things simple so you can help make your web based product accessible and show you how you can test it. Cascading Style Sheets or CSS is a very [...]
Read more: Testing Style Sheets...Posted under Accessibility and MS Office & Office User
Written by: Jeff Singleton
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...Posted under Testing
Written by: Jeff Singleton
Some dialog windows do not interact with JAWS in the expected way. When this happens there is text within the dialog that does not get read. Typically you will hear JAWS read only the buttons on the dialog and if a link exists you will hear that read as well when you arrow through the [...]
Read more: Dialog Window Text and the JAWS Cursor...