STC AccessAbility SIG
A Blog About Accessibility

The following is from Whitney Quesenbery
www.usabilityprofessionals.org
I’ve started seeing unintended (editorial) humor about accessibility. Here’s a few…anyone have any more?
From Usability News
“…access for people with visibility problems”
(Yes, people with disabilities often do have problems making themselves “visible”)
From any hotel
“…handicapped room…”
(Mine had a broken phone, so it really was “handicapped”)
From a standard (now fixed)
“…able to use [...]

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STC Usability SIG Topics in Usability: Accessibility
STC Usability SIG articles on "Accessibility, Ergonomics, and Special Audiences" at http://www.stcsig.org/usability/topics/
Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability Bi-weekly column by Dr. Jakob Nielsen, principal, Nielsen Norman Group
Futures Laboratory The Argonne Futures Lab performs basic and applied research in advanced communications, collaboration, and visualization technologies (for example, teleimmersion) to enable [...]

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Bibliography—literature in relation to Design for All (299 K ) edited by Greta Olsson & Thomas Lyhne. This Bibliography is a part of CEN/CENELEC Guide 6 "Guidelines for standards developers to address the needs of older persons and persons with disabilities". The Guide addresses relevant aspects relating to the needs of older persons and persons [...]

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Accessibility Validator, HTML Validator, Spell Checker, Link Checker all in one tool! The Total Validator is a free one-stop validator or all-in-one validator comprising an HTML validation against the W3C Markup Specifications or ISO/IEC definition using the published DTDs (2.0, 3.2, 4.0, 4.01, ISO/IEC, XHTML 1.0 and 1.1), an accessibility validator that validates against the [...]

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Topics in Usability: Accessibility
Topics in Usability: Web usability and design guidelines for working with older adults, children, and babies

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Fahrner Image Replacement (FIR) FIR is a standards-compliant technique that uses stylesheets and ordinary HTML to provide a visible image, usually consisting of text. The CSS specifies that the image will display in most cases; if it should not display for some reason, the underlying structural HTML markup is supposed to take its place… Because [...]

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A-Chat Web-based chat tool, designed with accessibility in mind
Accessible Web Developers group is a public bookmarking site provided by Ma.gnolia where anyone may post a favorite bookmark about creating accessible and mobile-friendly sites.
Accessify "tools, wizards, articles and tutorials on Web Accessibility for the conscientious web developer"
Accessify Forum.com a bulletin board for accessibility issues. An excellent [...]

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Applied Ergonomics Conference and Virtual Community
Ergonomics information provided by IBM.
Ergonomics At Work, Department of Occupational Health and Safety (DOHS)
Ergonomics & Safety Research Institute (ESRI) [United Kingdom]
"Ergonomics of human-system interaction — Guidance on accessibility for human-computer interfaces"
Healthy Computing information provided by IBM. Topics include Setting up your workstation, Workstation aids, Mobile computing, Comfort, Vision, Display, Input [...]

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AccessAbility SIG member, Whitney Quesenbery, Whitney Interactive Design, LLC, brought some exciting news to our attention. Here’s what Whitney has to say.
Plain language is not a new concept; understanding your audience, clear communication, and good information design are part of what makes us technical communicators.
Last week, we had some exciting news from the US Congress: [...]

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SIG member, Richard N. P. Hodgkinson, Fellow of the U.K. ISTC (Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators), is the editor for two ISO standards related to usability, accessibility, and systems software documentation:

ISO/TS 16071:2003: "Ergonomics of human-system interaction — Guidance on accessibility for human-computer interfaces"
ISO/IEC FDIS 18019:2003(E): "Software and systems engineering — Guidelines for the design [...]

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