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This is a resource that i think i’m going to find handy - cheat sheets for all manner of client and server side languages.

While not directly related to accessibility, when this one turned up in our inbox we thought we’d post it on here as this is a pretty handy resource for anyone working with the web in any way.

Client side languages catered for include (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript (including AJAX), ActionScript and Adobe AIR.

On the server side, there are resources for Apache Web Server, MySQL, .NET, Perl, PHP and Ruby On Rails.

There are also a number of resources for the Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI), Google keyboard shortcuts and popular blogging services including WordPress, TypePad and Moveable Type. Firefox and Thunderbird users will also find some cheat sheets they may find useful and for the creative people out there - Adobe Photoshop!

Enjoy!

Early in Spetember I presented at the Irish Design for All e-Accessibility Network on accessibility and AJAX. It was a great opportunity to meet people and discuss issues as well as a chance to listen to presentations given by Steve Faulkner from The Paciello Group, Joshue O’Conner from National Council for the Blind of Ireland and Des Traynor from iQcontent.

I was going to forward the presentation to the delegates and thought I may as well also post it here as well. Read the presentation on screen or get the full text transcript here.

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Gez Lemon and Steve Faulkner have co-written an article about some improvements in the way later versions of the JAWS screen reader handles dynamic content updates and how this can be extended through the use of unobtrusive scripting.

Improving Ajax applications for JAWS users

The article focuses on the concept of virtual buffers used by some screen readers, in other words the means by which a screen reader user can interact with a web page using keyboard commands and how this works in dynamically updating pages. Useful code samples are also given

The article follows on from an earlier article which looks at Making screen readers work with AJAX.