http://webaim.org/blog The WebAIM Web Accessibility Blog Tue, 06 May 2008 19:37:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As a major step in the W3C guideline development process, WCAG 2.0 has today been advanced to Candidate Recommendation status. This means that the WCAG working group believes the guidelines to be in a stable and usable form that can be used by developers and that, even though feedback is ... http://webaim.org/blog/wcag-2-candidate-recommendation/ The National Center on Disability and Access to Education (NCDAE), a partner, is currently involved in a project to help educational institutions improve the accessibility of their online content. As part of the project, I recently conducted an evaluation of 100 randomly-selected web pages, each from a different higher education ... http://webaim.org/blog/508-and-higher-ed/ WebAIM has volunteered time to the John Slatin Fund Accessibility Project. John Slatin, who passed away last month after a prolonged battle with leukemia, was a powerful advocate for web accessibility and one of the pioneers in this field. The John Slatin Fund was established to help John’s beloved ... http://webaim.org/blog/john-slatin-fund/ On April 3rd, the UN’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) received the necessary 20 member state ratifications for the Treaty to move into implementation. The CRDP will go into effect May 3rd. You can access the CRDP at http://www.un.org/disabilities/ This comprehensive human rights treaty provides ... http://webaim.org/blog/un-ratifies-disability-treaty/ I am seeing an increasingly alarming trend in the implementation of CSS on web sites - the inclusion of outline:0 or outline:none. The outline CSS property allows you to define the visual outline that displays when elements are selected or have focus. Otherwise known as the focus indicator, it is seen ... http://webaim.org/blog/plague-of-outline-0/ As part of WebAIM's Steppingstones of Technology project, we have performed an extensive literature review to identify elements that are often cited as having an impact on users with cognitive and learning disabilities when accessing web content. To further inform us, we invite you to complete a short survey. WebAIM's Steppingstones ... http://webaim.org/blog/cognitive-accessibility-survey/ In the six weeks since we launched WAVE 4.0 beta, over 100,000 accessibility reports have been run. We're now happy to announce the release of the WAVE Firefox toolbar. This toolbar performs web accessibility evaluations directly in your web browser. This provides better security, an ability to evaluate password-protected or ... http://webaim.org/blog/wave-toolbar-and-blog-available/ After the events of this week, I have several fewer reasons to loathe Internet Explorer. It's not a real secret that I, like many other developers, have experienced a vast amount of frustration in attempts to build standards compliant, accessible web sites that work in Internet Explorer. From the infamous hasLayout ... http://webaim.org/blog/ie8-standards-compliance-and-aria/ The CSUN Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference is one of the biggest accessibility conferences of the year. This year, WebAIM is giving three presentations at CSUN. If you're going to CSUN this year, we hope to see you there. Details below. Advanced Web Accessibility Evaluation with WAVE Wednesday, March 12, 2008 ... http://webaim.org/blog/webaim-presentations-at-csun/ WebAIM is pleased to announce the release of WAVE 4.0. We invite you to test WAVE and provide feedback, recommendations, and bug reports on this beta version at this time. What is WAVE? WAVE is a web accessibility evaluation tool. Rather than providing a complex technical report, WAVE shows your original ... http://webaim.org/blog/introducing-wave-4/