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    <title>Web Accessibility Initiative</title>
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    <updated>2007-04-03T20:12:42Z</updated>
    
 
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    <title>WCAG, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0</title>
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    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://phpmagazine.net/cgi-bin/pub/mt-atom.cgi/weblog/blog_id=22/entry_id=5785" title="WCAG, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0" />
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    <published>2007-04-03T20:08:28Z</published>
    <updated>2007-04-03T20:12:42Z</updated>
    
    <summary>W3C accessibility group released WCAG 2.0 Working Draft, the last call for reviewers to send their comments and suggestions on different issues for the new standard. The latest recommendation WCAG 1.0 was published on May 1999, and I think the...</summary>
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        <name>Hatem</name>
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        W3C accessibility group released WCAG 2.0 Working Draft, the last call for reviewers to send their comments and suggestions on different issues for the new standard. The latest recommendation WCAG 1.0 was published on May 1999, and I think the...
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    <title>Truwex Online, More Than An Accessibility Validation Tool</title>
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    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://phpmagazine.net/cgi-bin/pub/mt-atom.cgi/weblog/blog_id=22/entry_id=5767" title="Truwex Online, More Than An Accessibility Validation Tool" />
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    <published>2007-03-30T15:13:18Z</published>
    <updated>2007-03-30T15:17:44Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Truwex Online 2.0 is an excellent accessibility validation tool, by Erigami LTD, which aims to create a very complete report on Section 508 and WCAG Accessibility, Privacy, and website Quality. The tool is very easy to use, by simply entering...</summary>
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        <name>Hatem</name>
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        Truwex Online 2.0 is an excellent accessibility validation tool, by Erigami LTD, which aims to create a very complete report on Section 508 and WCAG Accessibility, Privacy, and website Quality. The tool is very easy to use, by simply entering...
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<entry>
    <title>Accessify, Tools and Resources to Make the Web Accessible</title>
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    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://phpmagazine.net/cgi-bin/pub/mt-atom.cgi/weblog/blog_id=22/entry_id=5664" title="Accessify, Tools and Resources to Make the Web Accessible" />
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    <published>2007-02-28T06:30:56Z</published>
    <updated>2007-02-28T06:33:09Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Accessify is an excellent initiative providing Tools, wizards, articles and tutorials on Web Accessibility for the conscientious web developer. the WAI lack to such initiative to help developers adopt accessibility standards and sometimes small tips and good practice can make...</summary>
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        <name>Hatem</name>
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        Accessify is an excellent initiative providing Tools, wizards, articles and tutorials on Web Accessibility for the conscientious web developer. the WAI lack to such initiative to help developers adopt accessibility standards and sometimes small tips and good practice can make...
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    <title>New Dutch Law on accessibility</title>
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    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://phpmagazine.net/cgi-bin/pub/mt-atom.cgi/weblog/blog_id=22/entry_id=5510" title="New Dutch Law on accessibility" />
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    <published>2007-01-24T06:37:59Z</published>
    <updated>2007-01-24T06:41:13Z</updated>
    
    <summary>I was reading on Peter-Paul Koch&apos;s blog about the latest Dutch accessibility Law, an excellent initiative I find from Dutch government to adopt web standards in Government websites and will be certainly adopted by some companies also. I worked with...</summary>
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        <name>Hatem</name>
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        I was reading on Peter-Paul Koch&apos;s blog about the latest Dutch accessibility Law, an excellent initiative I find from Dutch government to adopt web standards in Government websites and will be certainly adopted by some companies also. I worked with...
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<entry>
    <title>United Nations Global Audit of Web Accessibility</title>
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    <published>2006-12-16T10:12:59Z</published>
    <updated>2006-12-16T07:16:14Z</updated>
    
    <summary>According to this new audit of the United Nations Department of Social and Economic Affairs commissioned Nomensa on determining how accessible the Internet is for persons with disabilities, only three websites achieved Single A accessibility over 100 homepages evaluated during...</summary>
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        <name>Hatem</name>
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        According to this new audit of the United Nations Department of Social and Economic Affairs commissioned Nomensa on determining how accessible the Internet is for persons with disabilities, only three websites achieved Single A accessibility over 100 homepages evaluated during...
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<entry>
    <title>Are accessibility evaluation tools useless?</title>
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    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://phpmagazine.net/cgi-bin/pub/mt-atom.cgi/weblog/blog_id=22/entry_id=4878" title="Are accessibility evaluation tools useless?" />
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    <published>2006-09-10T07:30:54Z</published>
    <updated>2006-09-10T07:58:17Z</updated>
    
    <summary>456 Berea Street and the Standard Guy have a very interesting post about the usability of accessibility evaluation tools. In fact accessibility tools and methods are very complicated something that doesn&apos;t encourage developers and designers to use it very frequently....</summary>
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        <name>Hatem</name>
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        456 Berea Street and the Standard Guy have a very interesting post about the usability of accessibility evaluation tools. In fact accessibility tools and methods are very complicated something that doesn&apos;t encourage developers and designers to use it very frequently....
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    <title>Accessibility Color Wheel</title>
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    <published>2006-05-30T06:37:51Z</published>
    <updated>2006-05-30T07:01:13Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Here is another accessibility tool presented as a Color Wheel where you can Hover over the wheel and the grey stripe to view colors. When you hover on an accessible color an &quot;OK&quot; message is displayed, otherwise change one color...</summary>
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        <name>Hatem</name>
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        Here is another accessibility tool presented as a Color Wheel where you can Hover over the wheel and the grey stripe to view colors. When you hover on an accessible color an &quot;OK&quot; message is displayed, otherwise change one color...
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    <title>Color blindness, What things look like to color blind people</title>
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    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://phpmagazine.net/cgi-bin/pub/mt-atom.cgi/weblog/blog_id=22/entry_id=3238" title="Color blindness, What things look like to color blind people" />
    <id>tag:wai.phpmagazine.net,2006://22.3238</id>
    
    <published>2006-05-14T09:44:09Z</published>
    <updated>2006-05-14T09:49:36Z</updated>
    
    <summary>One of the important things to consider while studying web accessibility is the colors used in a web page. We usually talk about color blindness but sinceraly I don&apos;t know how does it really look. Color blindness is typically a...</summary>
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        <name>Hatem</name>
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        One of the important things to consider while studying web accessibility is the colors used in a web page. We usually talk about color blindness but sinceraly I don&apos;t know how does it really look. Color blindness is typically a...
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    <title>Color Contrast Analyzer</title>
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    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://phpmagazine.net/cgi-bin/pub/mt-atom.cgi/weblog/blog_id=22/entry_id=3220" title="Color Contrast Analyzer" />
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    <published>2006-05-07T06:23:13Z</published>
    <updated>2006-05-07T06:31:32Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Color contrast analyzer is one of the must-have tools for Web Accessibility. It is primarily a tool for checking foreground &amp; background colour combinations to determine if they provide good colour visibility. It also contains functionality to create simulations of...</summary>
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        <name>Hatem</name>
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        Color contrast analyzer is one of the must-have tools for Web Accessibility. It is primarily a tool for checking foreground &amp; background colour combinations to determine if they provide good colour visibility. It also contains functionality to create simulations of...
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    <title>Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone</title>
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    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://phpmagazine.net/cgi-bin/pub/mt-atom.cgi/weblog/blog_id=22/entry_id=3056" title="Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone" />
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    <published>2006-04-08T09:51:10Z</published>
    <updated>2006-04-08T09:53:20Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyoneby John M. Slatin, Sharron RushMaximum Accessibility tells you how to make the World Wide Web more accessible and more usable for everyone, including over 600 million people around the world...</summary>
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        Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyoneby John M. Slatin, Sharron RushMaximum Accessibility tells you how to make the World Wide Web more accessible and more usable for everyone, including over 600 million people around the world...
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    <title>Dive Into Accessibility, 30 days to a more accessible web site</title>
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    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://phpmagazine.net/cgi-bin/pub/mt-atom.cgi/weblog/blog_id=22/entry_id=3025" title="Dive Into Accessibility, 30 days to a more accessible web site" />
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    <published>2006-04-01T08:18:01Z</published>
    <updated>2006-04-01T09:42:59Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Dive Into Accessibility is an excellent reading for people looking for an introduction to web accessibility. This book answers two questions. The first question is &quot;Why should I make my web site more accessible?&quot; If you do not have a...</summary>
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        Dive Into Accessibility is an excellent reading for people looking for an introduction to web accessibility. This book answers two questions. The first question is &quot;Why should I make my web site more accessible?&quot; If you do not have a...
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<entry>
    <title>Mozilla Accessibility Extension</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2006/03/mozilla_accessibility_extensio.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://phpmagazine.net/cgi-bin/pub/mt-atom.cgi/weblog/blog_id=22/entry_id=2988" title="Mozilla Accessibility Extension" />
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    <published>2006-03-27T07:31:11Z</published>
    <updated>2006-03-27T07:40:25Z</updated>
    
    <summary>The Mozilla/Firefox Accessibility Extension makes it easier for people with disabilities to view and navigate web content. A toolbar provides easy access to navigation, styling, and keyboard enhancement functionality. Developers can use the extension to check their structural markup from...</summary>
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        The Mozilla/Firefox Accessibility Extension makes it easier for people with disabilities to view and navigate web content. A toolbar provides easy access to navigation, styling, and keyboard enhancement functionality. Developers can use the extension to check their structural markup from...
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    <title>Evaluating Website Accessibility Series</title>
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    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://phpmagazine.net/cgi-bin/pub/mt-atom.cgi/weblog/blog_id=22/entry_id=2952" title="Evaluating Website Accessibility Series" />
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    <published>2006-03-17T18:52:04Z</published>
    <updated>2006-03-17T19:01:34Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Roger Johansson posted at the 456 Brea St. a very interesting series of articles about Evaluating Website Accessibility. The first part titled Background and Preparation, is an introduction to WAI and to the necessary tools that will help you to...</summary>
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        Roger Johansson posted at the 456 Brea St. a very interesting series of articles about Evaluating Website Accessibility. The first part titled Background and Preparation, is an introduction to WAI and to the necessary tools that will help you to...
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    <title>Seven Accessibility Mistakes</title>
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    <published>2006-02-01T09:08:33Z</published>
    <updated>2006-02-01T09:12:57Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Digital Web Magazine have a very nice article titled Seven Accessibility Mistakes and written by Christian Heilmann. In this first part Christian is talking about the 3 mistakes which are : Believing in products without putting them to the test,...</summary>
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        Digital Web Magazine have a very nice article titled Seven Accessibility Mistakes and written by Christian Heilmann. In this first part Christian is talking about the 3 mistakes which are : Believing in products without putting them to the test,...
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<entry>
    <title>Writing a Good Accessibility Statement</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2005/12/writing_a_good_accessibility_s.html" />
    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://phpmagazine.net/cgi-bin/pub/mt-atom.cgi/weblog/blog_id=22/entry_id=2606" title="Writing a Good Accessibility Statement" />
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    <published>2005-12-27T06:46:56Z</published>
    <updated>2006-02-01T09:06:18Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Gez Lemon have written an interesting article titled Writing a Good Accessibility Statement at the Juicy studio website. Accessibility statements are an ideal place to empower visitors to your website. Most accessibility statements are too technical, and don&apos;t necessarily address...</summary>
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        <name>Hatem</name>
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        Gez Lemon have written an interesting article titled Writing a Good Accessibility Statement at the Juicy studio website. Accessibility statements are an ideal place to empower visitors to your website. Most accessibility statements are too technical, and don&apos;t necessarily address...
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