http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog Wed, 07 May 2008 08:21:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) have just announced that WCAG 2.0 is to go into Candidate Recommendation. This is the final stage before WCAG 2.0 formally takes over from WCAG 1.0. In Candidate Recommendation the community are invited to use the guidelines on their web projects and feedback to WAI ... http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/news/wcag-20-goes-to-candidate-recommendation/ At W4A today there was a demo given of WebAnywhere which is a free screen reader that can be accessed from any PC anywhere. Produced as part of the University of Washington and the WebInSight project from the Univeristy of Washington the software will be fully available in MAy 2008. WebAnywhere ... http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/access-technology/webanywhere-a-free-screen-reader-accessed-via-the-web/ If you haven't already booked to attend the first Accessibility 2.0 Conference, now would be a good time to do so. The conference, organised by AbilityNet will be held this Friday, 25th April, at City University, London. The conference will focus on web accessibility in the Web 2.0 world. So ... http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/conferences/accessibility-20-conference/ I arrived at Web 4 All in Beijing this morning and one of the first people I bumped into was Charles Chen over at Google. Charles is the guy behind FireVox, the screen reader extension for FireFox, and has been busy working on a solution to incorporate translation into ... http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/news/google-talks-in-multiple-tongues/ We're looking for another Web Accessibility Consultant to join our busy and growing team. You’ll have experience of working in a web-related environment and a familiarity with, and understanding of, the Web Content Accessibility guidelines (WCAG1 and WCAG2) published by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). You’ll also have in-depth knowledge ... http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/news/were-recruiting-web-accessibility-consultant/ As many of you may now have heard Dr John Slatin has passed away on Monday night. He was one of the original accessibility advocates, co-chair of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group in 2005 and 2006 as well as author of "Maximising accessibility". He was a familiar ... http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/news/mourning-the-passing-of-dr-john-slatin/ This is really exciting, the Web Accessibility Tools Consortium (WAT-C) have just released a simplified Chinese version of the Web Accessibility Toolbar. This is fantastic news as it's so hard to find resources in Chinese for web accessibility let alone tools. This can be downloaded from The Paciello Group ... http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/tools/179/ 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. The focus of the session was to walk blind and partially sighted users through how to blog using Wordpress, use Twitter, ... http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/conferences/creating-blogs-podcasts-and-use-of-social-media-tools-with-screen-readers/ At the start of February I presented at Techshare in Delhi, India's first ever conference for technology for people with disabilities. It was an eye opening event with people gathered from both government, industry and non-profit from all over India and the world. It was fascinating to learn about what ... http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/conferences/putting-accessibility-to-information-centre-stage-in-india/ Updated drafts of the Authoring Tool Accessiblity Guidelines 2.0 and Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Techniques documents were released today. ATAG defines how authoring tools should help Web developers produce Web content that is accessible and conforms to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines; it also defines how to make authoring tools accessible ... http://www.rnib.org.uk/wacblog/news/authoring-tool-accessibility-guidelines-20/