Another great project for technical communicators is happening right now over at WebAIM. As announced recently on the WebAIM blog, they have started a translation project for WAVE, WebAIM’s web accessibility evaluation tool. After all, who says web accessibility evaluation is only necessary in English!
First stop is Spanish.
The Center for Persons with Disabilities at [...]
Archive for “December, 2008”
Help with the WebAIM WAVE Translation Project
Posted by: kmardahl on December 28th, 2008
Calling all screen reader users for WebAIM survey
Posted by: kmardahl on December 28th, 2008
WebAIM has put together a survey of the preferences of screen reader users. Do you use a screen reader
all the time due to a disability?
part of the time due to a disability?
often, but do not have a disability that requires a screen reader?
occasionally to perform accessibility evaluation?
If you fit one of those models, why not [...]
Keep those PDFs accessible and usable!
Posted by: kmardahl on December 26th, 2008
We want to share a great link from the Web Axe blog and podcast site. They passed along Deborah Edwards-Onoro’s article, which covers Ten Tips for Creating Usable and Accessible PDFs.
The ten tips are
Use a structured source document
Save/export document as tagged PDF
Add title, author, subject and keywords
Add bookmarks
Initial view
Specify the reading language
Correct the reading [...]
WCAG 2.0 is official!
Posted by: kmardahl on December 11th, 2008
Yes, the long awaited version 2.0 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines was announced today! The news is being echoed all over Twitter, and our own SIG twitter account is chiming in.
Read the W3C press release for the official news. Then start following the discussions that have started and will continue in the coming days, [...]
Read: WCAG 2.0 is official! »
Live Webcast on Dec 3 from the UNITAR/G3ict Seminar at the UN
Posted by: kmardahl on December 2nd, 2008
Follow a live webcast from the United Nations on Dec 3rd from 9:30 - 13:30 ET on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities!
The event is “Implementing the Digital Accessibility Agenda of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Challenges and Opportunities for Signatory States”. It is the Third Global Forum - [...]
Read: Live Webcast on Dec 3 from the UNITAR/G3ict Seminar at the UN »
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