The WebAIM Newsletter Archives

February 2010

• Web Accessibility Preferences Are For Sissies
• Upcoming WebAIM events
• GOALS Action Paper
• The Serotek Ultimatum
• Update on the Section 508 / Section 255 Guidelines
• Winter Olympics Web Site Not Accessible
• Resources on cognitive web accessibility research
• What is Unclear About Captioning?

January 2010

• Updated Section 508 Checklist
• WAVE Dreamweaver Extension
• Office 2010: Accessibility Investments & Document Accessibility
• Jack Pickard Remembered
• Fangs - the screen reader emulator
• Contacting Organizations about Inaccessible Websites
• Accessible HTML5 Video with JavaScripted captions

December 2009

• Web accessibility no longer an afterthought
• Accessibility: How Many Disabled Web Users Are There?
• Cognitive Accessibility and WAVE - K-12 field test
• An Idiot's Guide To Accessible Website Design
• Involving Users in Web Projects for Better, Easier Accessibility
• JAWS ate my tables
• 10 Simple Web Accessibility Tips You Can Do Today
• How to Maintain the Accessibility of Your Site

November 2009

• Reflections on 10 Years
• Transparency without Accessibility
• NVDA release
• New Accessibility in Firefox
• One a Day Guidelines to Accessibility
• Google Adds Automated Captions

October 2009

• Screen Reader User Survey Results
• Google Wave Preview Accessibility Review
• Accessibility at Google
• Captioning YouTube Videos and Providing Accessible Controls
• Why Web Accessibility Efforts Fail

September 2009

• Screen Reader User Survey
• Accessible Twitter Wins Award
• Keyboard accessibility - basic steps towards a more usable and accessible site
• Google Chrome Frame - accessibility black hole
• Are PDF's More Important Than Web Accessibility?

August 2009

• Evaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility
• Fall Web Accessibility Events
• Readability: An arc90 Laboratory Experiment
• Accessibility Jargon Decoded
• Web Accessibility Tools List

July 2009

• Overview of WebAIM Cognitive Research
• WAVE Survey
• Obama to Sign UN Treaty
• WebAIM Blog: WCAG 2.0 and Link Colors
• Where is the business case for accessibility?
• Just how accessible is SVG?
• The Inclusion Principle

June 2009

• WebAIM blog: Screen Reader Testing is Back in Style
• WebAIM blog: Working in Web Accessibility
• Introducing The Open Web Education Alliance
• Shared Web Experiences: Barriers Common to Mobile Device Users and People with Disabilities
• Purpose of the summary Attribute
• Making compromises for accessibility
• The debate over page zooming vs. text scaling

May 2009

• Using NVDA to Evaluate Web Accessibility
• WAVE Available in Spanish
• InterAct Translations and Localizations
• Institutional indicators for web accessibility in postsecondary education
• Gez Lemon Interview & ARIA
• Jared Smith of WebAIM - Interview
• Seven Tips for Designing for Older Users
• Even Grounds blog series on disability and accessibility

April 2009

• Accessibility Blog Roundup II
• Twitter Accessibility Roundup
• Updated WAVE Toolbar
• Do Not Create Empty Links
• How to Use NVDA and Firefox to Test Your Web Pages for Accessibility
• The Paciello Group webinars on PDF Forms and Flash
• Patterns for WAI-ARIA landmark roles in existing HTML

March 2009

• Screen Reader Survey Updates
• New WAVE Version Released
• WebAIM/TPG Partnership
• Accessibility to the Face
• Hiding Content for Screen Readers
• NVDA - a Free, Open Source Screen Reader
• Leveling the Playing Field: We're all Differently Abled

February 2009

• Responses to WebAIM's screen reader survey
• WAI-ARIA Last Call, and Safari 4
• NFB Files Lawsuit Against Law School Admissions Council (LSAC)
• Project GOALS seeks input
• Accessible Twitter
• Twitter Focus

January 2009

• Screen Reader Survey Results
• WCAG 2.0 Checklist
• Color Contrast Checker
• 15 Tools If You Are (Not) Colorblind
• Headings, heading hierarchy, and document outlines
• Requiring the alt Attribute in HTML5

December 2008

• Screen Reader Survey
• WCAG 2.0 Finalized
• Color Contrast Tools
• Ten Tips for Creating Usable and Accessible PDFs
• Making Google Maps more Accessible
• Developing Accessible Widgets Using ARIA

November 2008

• New Accessibility Quick References
• WAVE Translation Project Begins
• WCAG 2.0: Proposed Recommendation Status
• Designing for Dyslexics
• Is Your (Website's) Underwear Showing?
• Accessibility: Making Video and Audio Usable For The Deaf
• Wordpress and Accessibility

October 2008

• Accessibility of Rich Internet Applications
• Updated ARIA Accessibility Toolbar
• Multiple Form Labels and Screen Readers
• Javascript and screen readers
• Linkification, part II

September 2008

• Update on WAVE
• WebAIM to Present at Accessing Higher Ground
• Target, YouTube, Fangs, and More
• Contrast Analyser, Version 2.1
• Legacy defeats consistency in IE 8's Web 2.0 accessibility effort
• Creating an accessible yet sexy search box with CSS

August 2008

• Web Accessibility Gone Wild
• Target lawsuit settled
• Freedom Machines to air Sept. 9
• GOALS Survey
• Assistive Technology: a video tour of accessibility
• Deafness and the User Experience

July 2008

• Steppingstones Literature Review Summary
• The Survey, 2008
• Social Accessibility - Threes a Crowd?
• Opera Web Standards Curriculum
• Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes

June 2008

• Update on ADA
• Web 2.0 Webinar
• The Accessibility Checklist I Vowed I'd Never Write
• Migrating from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0
• hAccessibility redux?
• Easy Flickr, Easy YouTube, and Easy Slideshare

May 2008

• PDF Accessibility
• WCAG 2.0 Advances to Candidate Recommendation
• Accessibility Evaluators Aren't Worthless
• Best Practices: Writing for Accessibility
• Making Twitter Tweet - Using the TPG Notifier

April 2008

• 508 and Higher Ed.
• UN Ratifies Disability Treaty
• Donate to John Slatin Fund, get an evaluation
• The Plague of Outline:0
• WebAnywhere - A Screen Reader on the Go

March 2008

• Cognitive Disability Survey
• WAVE Toolbar and Blog Available
• IE8, Standards Compliance, and ARIA
• HTML 5 and Accessibility
• Developing an Effective Text-resizing Widget

February 2008

• Microsoft Word Accessibility
• WCAG Samurai errata released
• Bobby is Gone
• Screen Readers lack emphasis
• Using Standards Doesn't Make It Right

January 2008

• Introducing WAVE 4.0
• JAWS License Not Developer Friendly
• Target.com Update
• Social networking sites lock out disabled users
• Creating accessible PDFs from Word 2007

December 2007

• Using JAWS to Evaluate Web Accessibility
• WCAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft
• Overdoing Accessibility
• Screen Reader Demonstration
• A Preview of HTML 5

November 2007

• Webaim/NCDAE to explore web accessibility in accreditation
• G3ict Website Launched
• Alt text and linked images
• Tips For Creating Great Web Forms
• Graceful E-Mail Obfuscation
• Fieldsets, Legends and Screen Readers

October 2007

• Section 508 to be updated
• Will Target Get Schooled?
• Colour Contrast Visualiser
• Findings from the Web Design Survey
• JAWS Keyboard Commands/Shortcuts
• Videos of People Using Assistive Technology
• A Comparative: Accessibility and Usability

August 2007

• The HTML 5 Image Element
• JAWS 9.0 with AJAX Support?
• Too much accessibility: Good intentions, badly implemented
• Comparing Tagged PDFs from Office and Acrobat
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Update

July 2007

• WebAIM Work on Cognitive Disabilities
• HTML 5 Draft
• Web Axe Podcast 52: REL Attribute
• Checkbox Maker

June 2007

• WCAG 2.0
• Using JAWS and Window Eyes on your Mac
• Colorblind Web Page Filter
• Improving Accessibility Through Typography
• Accessible Expanding and Collapsing Menu

May 2007

• The Great Accessibility Blog Roundup
• Updated WCAG 2.0 Draft
• What's Happening With WCAG 2.0?
• Search Engine Friendly vs. Search Engine Optimized
• Overcoming Objections to Accessibility

April 2007

• WebAIM Quick Reference Sheets
• Amazon.com and NFB join forces
• Accessible Web 2.0 Applications with WAI-ARIA
• Choosing an Accessible CMS

March 2007

• CSUN 2007
• Spam-free accessible forms
• WaSP Street Team
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Self-Study Training Course

February 2007

• Microsoft Expression Web
• Oracle Sued by Blind Workers in Texas
• University of Minnesota Duluth Accessibility Resources
• Web Captioning
• Multi-column Layouts

January 2007

• 2006: A Year in Review
• Numeric Access Keys Fixed in Firefox
• Seven accessibility mistakes you don't want to make
• Search and Accessibility
• Index of Government Guidelines for Web Sites

December 2006

• Introduction to Web Accessibility updated
• United Nations report only 3% of major sites are accessible.
• User-Proofing Ajax
• OpenOffice.org Impress
• Firebug 1.0

November 2006

• Browser Updates
• Firefox: An open source accessibility success story
• Click here and other meaningless link phrases
• Don't Provide an Accessibility Statement
• Jared Smith's Refresh the Web Presentation

October 2006

• OpenOffice.org and Accessibility Part 1: Writer
• The Future of Web Accessibility
• The Great Accessibility Camp-Out
• Web Axe Interview
• Talklets

September 2006

• Firefox Accessibility
• Target.com Lawsuit Moves Forward
• NCDAE Tips and Tools: OpenOffice.org Writer
• Using the title Attribute
• Text-Resize Detection

August 2006

• Appropriate Use of Alternative Text
• NIMAS in IDEA
• Google Accessibility Search
• Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance
• JavaScript Event Tests Part 1: mouseover

July 2006

• Section 508 Checklist
• PAS 78: a guide to good practice in commissioning accessible websites
• NCDAE Joins Access Board
• The Most Common CSS Markup Errors
• microformats.org

June 2006

• WebAIM's New Website
• WebAIM's Jared Smith Joins WaSP
• Explore the DOM with Firebug
• Photosensitive Epilepsy Analysis Tool (PEAT)
• Making Ajax Work with Screen Readers

May 2006

• Usable and Accessible Form Validation and Error Recovery
• NCDAE Tips and Tools: Adobe Acrobat & PDF
• Let the Buyer be Aware: The Importance of Procurement in Accessibility Policy
• Build Half a Product: Is Ajax Accessible? At All?

April 2006

• Web Accessibility Policies (and Pseudo Policies) in Postsecondary Institutions
• Using CSS to Create a Two-Column Layout
• Greasemonkey Form Help
• Accessibility Color Wheel
• Levels of Accessibility

March 2006

• The Importance of Human Evaluation
• Seven Accessibility Mistakes
• Evaluation of WYSISYG-editors
• Microsoft Word Fact Sheet

February 2006

• Creating Accessible CSS
• CSS in Action: Invisible Content Just for Screen Reader Users
• Writing a Good Accessibility Statement
• From the Top: The Title Element
• NCDAE Tips and Tools: Microsoft PowerPoint Factsheet
• Creating Accessible Macromedia Flash Content

January 2006

• Accessibility of AJAX Application
• Simple, Accessible External Links
• Thinking Outside the Grid
• CommonLook Review From WebAIM
• Release of the Web Developer Extension 1.0
• Web Page Analyzer 0.961

December 2005

• Using Wave 3.5
• Report on Wave/Invitation to Participate
• 24 Ways
• Semantic Typography: Bridging the XHTML gap
• NCDAE Bi-monthly Newsletter
• WCAG 2.0 and ATAG 2.0 Working Drafts

November 2005

• An Introduction to NCDAE's Tips and Tools: Macromedia Breeze
• How To: Anchor Text (Don't Click Here!)
• Form Help without Popups
• Sim Daltonism
• Character References Explained

October 2005

• Testing with Screen Readers: A Hypothetical Conversation
• Navigation ? Our Visitors' Travel Guide
• Methods for Measuring Text Readability
• Web Essentials 05 Podcasts
• Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta
• IBM Systems Journal

September 2005

• Hypertext Links
• Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar
• Using the AIS Toolbar
• Facts and Opinions About PDF Accessibility

August 2005

• Adobe Acrobat PDF
• Label Positioning
• The Voice of the Web
• The Microsoft Internet Explorer Weblog
• Color Contrast

July 2005

• Constructing a POUR Website
• Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
• Communicating Error Messages Accessibly
• Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force
• The VIP Consumer

June 2005

• Accessibility and Macromedia Breeze
• Ten Questions for Joe Clark
• Side by Side WCAG vs. 508
• DO-IT Streaming Video Presentations

May 2005

• Conceptual Framework for Accessibility Tools to Benefit Users with Cognitive Disabilities
• Toward User-Centered, Scenario-Based Planning and Evaluation Tools
• Validating an Entire Site
• Usability Frosting for you Accessibility Cake
• Spruced-up Site Maps
• Mac OS X Tiger's VoiceOver
• Usability Testing Without a Budget

April 2005

• The Web Developer Extension for Mozilla-based Browsers
• Lower-Literacy Users
• More Nifty Corners
• Accessible Content Magazine
• Access Matters

March 2005

• WebAIM's Web Accessibility Resource Planner (WARP): Resource Highlights
• The 'lang' Attribute
• Efficient CSS with Shorthand Properties
• Beta Version: Web Accessibility Visualizer
• Colour Analyser 1.0 & Colour Contrast Check

February 2005

• Web Accessibility Resource Planner
• Accessibility Features in Adobe Reader 7
• Developing Site for Users with Cognitive Disabilities and Learning Difficulties
• Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites:Observing Users Who Work with Screen Readers
• 2004 Survey on Access Technology in Higher Education
• VIS: Visual Impairment Simulator
• Accessible Technologies for All Students

January 2005

• WebAIM's Response to the National Education Technology Plan and Call for Action
• Web Accessibility podGuide
• Designing Web Site for Older Users: Comparing AARP's Studies to Earlier Findings
• Access Learning
• Connect Outloud
• Accessibility Evaluation Practices: Survey

December 2004

• Email Access: From the Perspective of an Individual with a Visual Impairment
• Accessibility: On a shoe string
• Fangs: The Firefox Screen Reader Emulator Extension
• Stylegala's CSS Reference Index

November 2004

• Using FrontPage 2003 to Create Accessible Content
• CSS and Round Corners: Build Accessible Menu Tabs
• Overview: Planning Web Accessibility Training
• How Can I Select a Web Accessibility Software Tool?

October 2004

• Creating Accessible Macromedia Flash Content
• The Top Twenty Tips for Twenty Minutes of Testing
• The XHTML Way
• UITest.com User Interface Test Resources

September 2004

• Accessibility Features of DreamWeaver MX and MX 2004
• Web Accessibility Wizard for Microsoft Office Version 2.0
• Best Practices in Online Captioning
• New Standard for Text Email Newsletters

August 2004

• Cognitive Disabilities Part 1 & 2
• Microsoft study of accessible technology
• MathPlayer 2.0
• aDesigner

July 2004

• Creating Accessible JavaScript
• CourseGenie from Connected Learning
• Question Time
• Flash Accessibility White Paper

June 2004

• Assessing Assessments: The Inequality of Electronic Testing
• Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS)
• Hermish.com
• YouSearched.com

May 2004

• An Accessible Method of Hiding HTML Content
• Optimizing Your Chances with Accessibility
• Accessible Search Engine Optimisation Techniques
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0

April 2004

• Accessible Taxes? A blind man's experience with the US tax system
• Understanding the User perspective
• An accessible distance education tutorial

March 2004

• WebAIM Online Symposium
• A Review of Free, Online Accessibility Tools
• Conducting Accessibility and Usability Testing
• Web Accessibility Toolbar for Internet Explorer

February 2004

• Captioning your Audio
• Have you checked your site for color?
• Vischeck & ColorMatch Remix
• Web Publishing Accessibility Wizard for Microsoft Office

January 2004

• University Web Accessibility Policies: A Bridge Not Quite Far Enough
• Are PDF documents really accessible to all?
• Alternative Web Browsing