Accessibility

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Accessibility”

• Useful links: Color Contrast Checker, Zeldman interview, retweet

  
  Web Teacher — Authority: 418
  The WebAIM Color Contrast Checker is a great tool. Using it should be listed as a must do early in the planning and design of any web site. Within seconds you know if your color choices will pass or fail color contrast accessibility standards. Peachpit’s Author Interview program with Jeffrey Zeldman about the ...
  5 hours ago

• Odt2DAISY - create DAISY Digital Talking Books with OpenOffice.org!

  
  GullFOSS — Authority: 466
  Vincent Spiewak has finished his OpenOffice.org extension for converting ODF text documents to DAISY Digital Talking Books - you can find the press release here . The extension not only creates XML content, but also can make use of different text to speech engines, so you will have fully featured talking ...
  7 hours ago

• In the news: School chaplains & flogging, police van assault, and inaccessible firefighting

  
  Hoyden About Town — Authority: 136
  What’s grinding my gears today: WA Today: Poor parenting alarms schools Education Minister Julia Gillard has acknowledged that poor parenting is placing a heavy burden on schools and has promised principals she will give them more support to tackle violence, bullying and behavioural problems. [...] Gary Quinn, ...
  10 hours ago

• Valerie Singleton wants more Facebook friends, promotes Linux for the elderly

  
  F-Default — Authority: 561
  We’re not really sure whether to consider this patronizing or genuinely useful . Former Blue Peter presenter Valerie Singleton, who is herself at an advanced age now, has partnered with Wessex Computers to create a custom Linux desktop targeted at easing the elderly into the use of a computer. Dubbed SimplicITy (the ...
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• Valerie Singleton wants more Facebook friends, promotes Linux for the elderly

  
  RSS fabriek — Authority: 461
  We’re not really sure whether to consider this patronizing or genuinely useful . Former Blue Peter presenter Valerie Singleton, who is herself at an advanced age now, has partnered with Wessex Computers to create a custom Linux desktop targeted at easing the elderly into the use of a computer. Dubbed SimplicITy ...
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• 10 Tips for Writing Better CSS

  
  Web Design Ledger — Authority: 634
  Writing your first piece of css code can seem really weird if you’re used to working with tables, or just haven’t written code before. In this article I want to talk about 10 different ways you can write proper and clean css code as well as streamline the process and ensure you’re getting the job done as quickly ...
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• Unconvinced with the former build, GM and Segway redesign PUMA

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 441
  Barely half a year back, we saw GM and Segway joining hands to develop a two-seater, two-wheeled electric car that was supposed to reach a top speed of 35 mph with an operating range of 35 miles on a single charge. Dubbed as PUMA or the Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility, the two-wheeler has recently ...
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• Developing Regions: Common Goals, Common Problems?

  
  UK Web Focus — Authority: 118
  The W4A 2010 conference has announced its call for papers . The theme for next year’s event, which will be held in Raleigh, USA on 26-27 May, is “ Developing Regions: Common Goals, Common Problems? “. The context to the conference is described by the organisers: However, this expansion [the revolution in ...
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• Now BudgetPulse Can Help You Control Your Personal Finance On The …

  
  The Wealthy Soul — Authority: 153
  Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers. Read more:  Now BudgetPulse Can Help You Control Your Personal Finance On The …
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• FOMS and LCA Multimedia Miniconf

  
  ginger's thoughts — Authority: 108
  If you haven’t proposed a presentation yet, got ahead and register yourself for: FOMS (Foundations of Open Media Software workshop) at http://www.foms-workshop.org/foms2010/pmwiki.php/Main/CFP LCA Multimedia Miniconf at http://www.annodex.org/events/lca2010_mmm/pmwiki.php/Main/CallForP It’s already November ...
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• Typekit Launches its Cloud-Based Web Font Service

  
  Mashable! — Authority: 883
  Typekit takes a cloud-based approach to fonts on the web, serving up an extensive library of designer fonts that be incorporated into a site simply by dropping in a line of code. We first wrote about it back in May when the project was first announced, and now the service is live . What that means is web ...
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• NYC Transit Users with Disabilities Lose an Ally

  
  United Spinal's Action Online Magazine — Authority: 117
  The resignation of Howard Roberts, NYC Transit (NYCT) President is a loss for NYC’s community of people with disabilities and a gain for Philadelphia. By James Weisman In my 30 + years of legal advocacy for people with disabilities I have encountered hundreds of public officials; none were more dedicated to doing ...
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• Useful Tweets 28

  
  A Blog Not Limited ~ Article Teasers — Authority: 103
  It has been months and months, and Im finally returning to this series . Fortunately and not surprisingly, my tweeting was significantly less while writing the book , especially tweets with "useful" links. So you havent really missed out on much … not that you would anyways. I promise I wont make you wait so ...
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• Headings and document structure conclusions

  
  456 Berea Street — Authority: 517
  There appears to be no single solution to heading structure in HTML that fits all situations, but as I see it there are two choices. Read full post Posted in (X)HTML , Accessibility .
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• Disability and Finding Your Voice

  
  Womanist Musings — Authority: 645
  I was not born differently abled.  After contracting Sarcoidosis and Fibromyalgia, my body was changed irrevocably.   It has been a learning process.  Not only did I have to learn my new limitations, I had to deal with disbleism for the first time in my life.  As a person who had previously lived with two areas ...
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• Free Film Series December 5 – Disability Reframed

  
  Somerville Voices — Authority: 132
  [ December 5, 2009; 2:00 am to 5:00 am. ] Free film - Dec 5 - "Emmanuels Gift," part of "Disability Reframed" series.
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• Recommended Reading for November 10

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 650
  Transcript from Melissa Barton Interview This is a transcript of Sharon daVanport’s interview with Melissa Barton for the Asperger Women’s Association. Melissa’s son Alex was voted out of his kindergarten class Survivor-style by his teacher, Wendy Portillo, in May 2008; Alex has Asperger Syndrome. The Bartons ...
  2 days ago

• I Ghotit Right

  
  RSC NewsFeed — Authority: 479
  Ghotit intelligent, context spell checker developed by dyslexics for dyslexics.  In education today, the most common means of communication is reading and writing. Gaining confidence in writing can be a critical factor to success. Students with dyslexia or literacy issues usually invest a lot of effort in ...
  2 days ago

• Two Options for Subtitling Videos

  
  RSC NewsFeed — Authority: 479
  Have you ever wanted to make your YouTube videos more accessible by adding your own comments or subtitles in any language? The following tools provide the  option of creating captioning for videos. Overstream Overstream provides an online Editor, which allows users to create and synchronize subtitles to any ...
  2 days ago

• Using CSS background-image to style links

  
  Web Teacher — Authority: 418
  There are many ways to style links with CSS. One possible way is to use the background-image property to distinguish the various link states. Link states are represented in CSS by selectors involving the a element, which targets an HTML a tag in a link like Some page . The potential states of a hyperlink are ...
  2 days ago

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