On the weekend of 11 February, software developers are meeting together in London to recognise the accessibility challenges faced everyday by visually impaired users...
Read more about RNIB Hackathon.
Tag: Better connected, better results
Posted at: 31/01/2012 10:36 AM by Moderator
We have recently been asked - and not for the first time - if a new website should support Internet Explorer 6. Usage of IE6 has been falling sharply in the last year or so...
Read more about Internet Explorer 6 and accessibility.
Tag: Frequent accessibility questions
Posted at: 16/09/2011 3:00 PM by Moderator
This is the second in a series of posts to help you make your PDF files accessible. In the last post we described some of the document properties necessary for overall accessibility...
Read more about Accessible PDF #2.
Tag: PDF accessibility
Posted at: 7/09/2011 6:00 PM by Moderator
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is a useful standard for anyone wanting to create an accessible website, but there's no equivalent guidelines for creating mobile apps, so many developers may not realise there's a need, or a way, to...
Read more about Are your mobile apps accessible?.
Tag: Articles
Posted at: 4/05/2011 1:07 PM by Lynn Holdsworth
Lots of folk have spent time and effort bringing their web site content up to current accessibility standards, but due to an oversight, some may be inaccurately claiming that their site is fully conformant to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2...
Read more about Accessible PDF.
Tag: PDF accessibility
Posted at: 21/04/2011 3:00 PM by Bim Egan
We have another week of website accessibility training courses planned for 7 to 11 March 2011 (London). Book now if you are interested as places fill quickly! We offer five courses in total: Day 1: Demystifying accessibility...
Read more about RNIB Website Accessibility Training Courses, London 2011.
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Posted at: 11/01/2011 10:00 AM by Adrian Linney
After a number of months away, we're really pleased to have the Web Access Centre blog back up and running! We're planning a series of new posts but we thought we'd start by moving all of the legacy posts and comments over from our previous blog...
Read more about Welcome to the new WAC blog!.
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Posted at: 28/04/2010 1:03 PM by Verity Cork
By henny Today I attended a presentation at CSUN on Creating Blogs, Podcasts and Use of Social Media Tools with Screen Readers presented by Mika Pyyhkala from the Association of Blind Citizens...
Read more about Creating Blogs, Podcasts and Use of Social Media Tools with Screen Readers.
Tag: Access technology
Posted at: 13/03/2008 10:45 PM by Verity Cork
By henny With the help of Barrier Break Technologies we have pulled together a list of Jaws and WindowEyes keystrokes for Flash and PDF. These are based on certain versions of each screen reader, Flash and PDF...
Read more about Jaws and WindowEyes keystrokes for Flash and PDF.
Tag: Access technology
Posted at: 6/03/2008 12:05 PM by Verity Cork
By Bim In the last two months I've come across more examples of the LONGDESC attribute in use, than I've seen in as many previous years...
Read more about The rise and fall of the LONGDESC.
Tag: Too much accessibility
Posted at: 12/02/2008 6:13 PM by Dave Wailing