http://wai.phpmagazine.net/ http://wai.phpmagazine.net/images/logo.png http://wai.phpmagazine.net/ en Copyright 2007 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:08:28 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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... http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2007/04/wcag_web_content_accessibility.html http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2007/04/wcag_web_content_accessibility.html General Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:08:28 +0000 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... http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2007/03/truwex_online_more_than_an_acc.html http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2007/03/truwex_online_more_than_an_acc.html Tools Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:13:18 +0000 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... http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2007/02/accessify_tools_and_resources.html http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2007/02/accessify_tools_and_resources.html Tools Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:30:56 +0000 I was reading on Peter-Paul Koch'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... http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2007/01/new_dutch_law_on_accessibility.html http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2007/01/new_dutch_law_on_accessibility.html Case Studies Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:37:59 +0000 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... http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2006/12/united_nations_global_audit_of.html http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2006/12/united_nations_global_audit_of.html Case Studies Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:12:59 +0000 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't encourage developers and designers to use it very frequently.... http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2006/09/are_accessibility_evaluation_t.html http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2006/09/are_accessibility_evaluation_t.html General Sun, 10 Sep 2006 07:30:54 +0000 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 "OK" message is displayed, otherwise change one color... http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2006/05/accessibility_color_wheel.html http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2006/05/accessibility_color_wheel.html Tools Tue, 30 May 2006 06:37:51 +0000 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't know how does it really look. Color blindness is typically a... http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2006/05/color_blindness_what_things_lo_1.html http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2006/05/color_blindness_what_things_lo_1.html General Sun, 14 May 2006 09:44:09 +0000 Color contrast analyzer is one of the must-have tools for Web Accessibility. It is primarily a tool for checking foreground & background colour combinations to determine if they provide good colour visibility. It also contains functionality to create simulations of... http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2006/05/color_contrast_analyzer.html http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2006/05/color_contrast_analyzer.html Tools Sun, 07 May 2006 06:23:13 +0000 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... http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2006/04/maximum_accessibility_making_y.html http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2006/04/maximum_accessibility_making_y.html Books Sat, 08 Apr 2006 09:51:10 +0000 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 "Why should I make my web site more accessible?" If you do not have a... http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2006/04/dive_into_accessibility_30_day.html http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2006/04/dive_into_accessibility_30_day.html Books Sat, 01 Apr 2006 08:18:01 +0000 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... http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2006/03/mozilla_accessibility_extensio.html http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2006/03/mozilla_accessibility_extensio.html Tools Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:31:11 +0000 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... http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2006/03/evaluating_website_accessibili.html http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2006/03/evaluating_website_accessibili.html Tutorials Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:52:04 +0000 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,... http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2006/02/seven_accessibility_mistakes.html http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2006/02/seven_accessibility_mistakes.html General Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:08:33 +0000 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't necessarily address... http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2005/12/writing_a_good_accessibility_s.html http://wai.phpmagazine.net/2005/12/writing_a_good_accessibility_s.html General Tue, 27 Dec 2005 06:46:56 +0000