Archives for November, 2008
The following is from an 8 May 2008 posting on http://www.consumeraffairs.com/. But travelers complain existing rules are often ignored May 8, 2008—Travelers with disabilities will be getting new protections against discrimination when they fly on a foreign airline flight that begins or ends in the United States, as well as on any flight operated by [...]
SIG member, Whitney Quesenbery shares this news: The HFES 200 has been approved as an American National Standard (ANSI). HFES is the Human Factors and Engineering Society, which has authored several standards relating to usability, accessibility, and ergonomics. HFES 200 covers Human Factors Engineering of Software User Interface, and has been carefully harmonised with other [...]
A great example of the client you don’t want and poor usability and accessibility design. http://view.break.com/542649 – Watch more free videos
Did you know that the STC Technical Summit being held in Atlanta next May will be recorded? Tom Johnson interviewed Lloyd Tucker, STC’s Director of Education and Membership to learn more about this new service. What did Tom ask Lloyd? Why did the STC decide to record all the sessions this year? Won’t the cost [...]
The SIG has jumped on the Twitter bandwagon. We tweet at http://twitter.com/stcaccess. Tweet? Twitter? Let’s take Twitter first. Twitter is often called micro-blogging. Entries posted to Twitter can only contain 140 characters. These postings, or messages, are called tweets. We have mentioned tweets on this blog earlier in connection with the June 2008 Technical Summit. [...]
![[Valid XHTML 1.0]](/wp-content/uploads/w3c_xhtml10.gif "Validate XHTML 1.0"){kind=small}
![[Valid CSS!]](/wp-content/uploads/w3c_validcssb.png "Validate CSS"){kind=small}
![[W3C Web standards]](/wp-content/uploads/w3c_standards.gif "This site conforms to W3C Web Standards"){kind=small}
![[Cynthia Says Tested]](/wp-content/uploads/Ctested.gif "Test Section 508 standards and WCAG guidelines for accessibility"){kind=small}
![[Passes the Lynx Validator]](/wp-content/uploads/lynx_inspected-80x15.gif "Convert to text-only page and validate in Lynx Viewer"){kind=small}
![[Valid RSS]](/wp-content/uploads/valid_rss.png "Validate my RSS feed")
![[GrayBit]](/wp-content/uploads/graybit.gif "Convert full-color Web page into grayscale to test accessibility"){kind=small}
![[MySQL database]](/wp-content/uploads/mysql_powered.gif "The database is powered by MySQL"){kind=small}
![[Section 508]](/wp-content/uploads/sec508b.gif "U.S. Government Section 508 requirements"){kind=small}
![[WordPress]](/wp-content/uploads/wp-icon.png "This blog is powered by WordPress"){kind=icon}
![[pbWiki]](/wp-content/uploads/pb_wiki-80x15.gif "A-SIG's Management Wiki powered by Peanut Butter Wiki"){kind=small}
![[STC AccessAbility SIG]](/wp-content/uploads/stc_a-sig.gif "The STC AccessAbility SIG Web site"){kind=small}
Recent Comments