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The call for review of the working draft of ATAG 2.0 – the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines – is now open. You can submit your comments until June 11. What needs to be reviewed? This 2.0 working draft of the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) published 21 May 2009. How to review ATAG 2.0 If [...]
by Hillary Hart STC Director at Large Candidate for 2009 2nd Vice-President E-mail: hart@mail.utexas.edu URL: http://www.caee.utexas.edu/prof/hart/ STC has meant a lot to my professional growth over the past 20+ years as a teacher and practitioner of technical communication, and I want to help STC expand its educational mission for all technical communicators. It is time [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Share news about your local events that have accessibility on the menu! Here’s a tip from the Boston, Massachusetts area submitted by our SIG member, P.J. Gardner, Information Designer and Web Accessibility Consultant. If you live in the greater Boston area, please consider attending the following event on the “New Section 508″! I thought I [...]
You might be able to help. Member Whitney Quesenbery brought us the latest news about the Plain Language bill that we wrote about back in April this year. It is stuck in the Senate. Senator Bennett (R. Utah) has blocked the bill on the grounds that it would be a problem for the Federal Election [...]
As Opera puts it, “Learning Web Standards just got easier.” Indeed it has! Opera has released “a complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics”. It is called the Web Standards Curriculum. This curriculum was released in association with the Yahoo! Developer Network and [...]
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) sent out a call for review of its First Public Working Draft of Web Accessibility for Older Users: A Literature Review, one of the WAI-AGE project deliverables. It was published 14 March 2008, and WAI encourages review and comments, all to be submitted by 4 June 2008, if possible. This [...]
29 January 2008 International Organization for Standardization press release A new ISO standard for spinal disc implants will help reduce suffering of back pain patients. The new standard will help ensure that spinal disc prostheses meet requirements for wear resistance, particularly important as once implanted these will need to absorb the impact from the body’s [...]
2008-02-12 Equipping pedestrian street crossings with acoustic and tactile signals to help disabled persons was a step forward. The problem is that they vary from one country to another. Now, a new ISO standard provides the basis for harmonizing such signals on a worldwide basis. The aim of ISO 23600:2007, Assistive products for persons with [...]
(Note: This article originally appeared in the Spring 2008 edition of Communicator, the quarterly journal of ISTC – Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators. The AccessAbility SIG is grateful for the permission to reprint the article here.) Richard Hodgkinson reports on new developments for European ICT documentation accessibility. Regular readers of these pages will recall [...]
Today, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) entered into force. When you realize that an estimated 650 million people worldwide are affected by this groundbreaking treaty, this is very big news. According to the news release about CRPD from the UN News Centre today, the rights of persons with [...]
TEITAC proudly presented its report to the United States Access Board on April 3rd concerning revision recommendations regarding the standards for section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and the guidelines for section 255 of the US Telecommunications Act. The April 3rd TEITAC announcement can be read in its entirety on the Web, as well as [...]
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