Posted in accessibility on Mar 10th, 2009
Back in the day when web pages were web pages and not web applications you could just about get away with not testing with a screen reader. Using a combination of text based browsers, accessibility testing tools such as the Web Accessibility Tools consortium Accessibility Toolbar and and browser tools such as Preferences settings in [...]
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Posted in standards on Feb 14th, 2009
Last year Opera released data from MAMA (Metadata Analysis and Mining Application), a search engine that trawls web pages and returns results detailing page structures, what HTML, CSS, and script is used.
MAMA examined 3,509,180 URLs in 3,011,668 domains and returned results on how many pages validate (only 4.13%), how many use Flash (33.5%), how FRAMES [...]
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Posted in accessibility on Jan 7th, 2009
It has to be said that I’ve never had more pleasure than working with Barrier Break Technologies (the guys behind India Techshare) when it come to accessible Flash. Working closely with Adobe, RNIB in the UK, Vision Australia and disability organisations and groups all over the world I’d say they have a pretty good handle [...]
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