Multimedia Accessibility

Items Implemented\n * All links are keyboard accessible.\n * Simple, consistent layout and navigation.\n * Works with or without JavaScript.\n * Large default text size and high color contrast.\n * Looks great in high or low resolution.\n * Forms are marked up for optimal accessibility.\n * Code is semantic, light, and adheres to best practices in Web Standards.

Twitter has changed from being a tool most people thought is simply yet another way for people on the Internet to waste time to a platform for social change, social networking and dare I say it even business. One of the aspects that Twitter has been lacking is an accessible interface to the service. Thankfully Dennis Lembrée is changing all this. Schalk Neethling sat down with Dennis to learn more about Accessible Twitter, the problems he faces in creating it and what the future will hold.

Guideline 1.1 Text Alternatives: Provide text alternatives for any non-text content so that it can be changed into other forms people need, such as large print, braille, speech, symbols or simpler language.

Welcome to Camera Obscura, the womb without a view http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/blind.html ...\n(skip to detailed site map)

Using purely the public twitter API Dennis has created an accessible version of Twitter. The site http://accessibletwitter.com/ aims to fix all of the issues above and continue to support and advocate for twitter to be accessible to all. Below is the current progress of the project.

google cached OCR of the JdG Vademecum image PDF

Some people see the legal obligation to follow Web content accessibility guidelines - whether of the W3C or, in the US, of section 508 - as leading to boring text-only pages. Actually, these guidelines do not exclude the use of multimedia on the web. They say that multimedia should be made accessible by "Providing equivalent alternatives to auditory and visual content" and in particular: "For any time-based multimedia presentation (e.g., a movie or animation), synchronize equivalent alternatives (e.g., captions or auditory descriptions of the visual track) with the presentation."[1]

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.

ICART's mission is to design and advocate for accessibility features to be included as radio broadcasting accelerates the global transition to digital transmission. As we like to say: "Accessible design is good universal design"

In this page, we will collect all the information aggregated about video accessibility features for the Web. This includes: 1. a list of video accessibility requirements 2. a list of existing video accessibility formats 3. a list of required and actual existing software for video accessibility 4. proposed accessibility formats for the future.

Guideline 1. Provide equivalent alternatives to auditory and visual content.

(a) A text equivalent for every non-text element shall be provided (e.g., via "alt", "longdesc", or in element content).\n\n(b) Equivalent alternatives for any multimedia presentation shall be synchronized with the presentation. ...