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Ten Reasons If you're a web developer, at some point a client is going to request from you some whiz-bang feature that simply defies accessibility.

NPR, Harris Corporation and Towson University today announced a new initiative to make radio more accessible to the hundreds of millions of hearing and visually impaired people around the world.

This article will try to make two points: 1. accessibility statements are often pointless and 2. you are better off with a "site help" if you think your target audience need it.

This isn't a new issue. George Kerscher and I wrote a major essay on the topic seven(!) years ago entitled the Soundproof Book. In it, we pointed out the irony that the first generation of ebook readers being inaccessible to blind people. This irony continues: it's a terrible shame that Amazon (and other ebook device vendors) keeps putting out ebook products that are inaccessible to the blind! More on that in another essay. The essence of the Soundproof Book essay was the dueling moral high grounds: author's rights vs. the right to access. Since these are both generally good from society's standpoint, how do you handle the conflict between them?

The Zenbox Project's main objective is to provide easy access to a Linux-based graphical desktop environment to blind users of notebooks.

The bridge was meant to be very solemnly inaugurated on Sept. 18, 2008, with the President of the Italian Republic attending. However, this ceremony was cancelled due to the protests of associations of people with disabilities, in particular of the Un ponte per tutti petition, because the bridge violates national accessibility norms, as it includes glass-covered stairs that exclude people in wheelchairs.

The bridge has provoked its share of controversies, including concerns about the bridge's accessibility to locals and tourists in wheelchairs. (The city has promised to install "egg-shaped lifts" for the disabled, but whether they'll be more reliable than Venice's existing platform lifts is unknown.)

The guidelines overview pages listed below introduce WAI accessibility guidelines and their related documents, such as: * techniques to help implement the guidelines * translations of the documents into different languages * checklists

Di B., Paolini P., Speroni M. (2004 (to appear)). Web Accessibility for Blind Users Towards Advanced Guidelines. UI4ALL Conference (User Interfaces for All), Vien [sic]

Dec. 5, 06. "Accessibility agency Nomensa tested the leading websites in five different sectors across 20 countries. Only three websites (...) The report, commissioned by the United Nations as part of its International Day of Disabled Persons ..."

GRADE's mission is to improve the accessibility of distance education for students with disabilities throughout the nation by providing: * Technical assistance, * Training, and * Research.

What is accesselearning? A free,online ten-module tutorial that offers information, instructional techniques, and practice labs on how to make the most common needs in distance education accessible for individuals with disabilities, and enhance the usabil

A common method of limiting access to services made available over the Web is visual verification of a bitmapped image. This presents a major problem to users who are blind, have low vision, or have a learning disability such as dyslexia.

Web Design Quote for 7/1/2007 ... This means that the interface design must not only organize the content for easy access, but must incorporate the right combination of technologies and interaction techniques to allow the user to work in their own style.

The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards which ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all

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