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Accessible HTML5 Video with JW Player as Fallback

The DO-IT Video site recently got a face-lift. Among the changes was a new player, which uses the HTML5 <video> element for browsers that support it, and falls back to the JW Player for those that don’t.

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A11y

Should the ADA Require WCAG 2.0 Level AA Conformance?

Monday (January 24) is the deadline for submitting comments related to the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) proposed rulemaking related to web accessibility and the Americans with Disabilities Act. See the Instructions for Submitting Public Comments and the proposal. In their proposal, the DOJ has specifically asked 19 questions on which they’re seeking feedback. A […]

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Testing Accessibility of Pre-populated Input Fields

It’s becoming increasingly common for web pages to include input fields, especially search fields, that prompt the user with placeholder text inside the input field, rather than a separate visible label. The main argument I’ve heard for doing so is to conserve scarce screen real estate. I’ve seen this implemented in a variety of ways, […]

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Music

Counting down to FAWM 2011

February is international Album Writing Month, hence the acronym FAWM, as in fawm.org, one of two web communities that I know of (the other is The RPM Challenge) where songwriters and musicians assemble each February to crank out a bunch of fresh new tunes, share ideas and demos, and generally support one another and have […]

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No JAWS 11 in 2011

Happy New Year, everyone! We welcome 2011 having spent the last week or two celebrating, spending quality time with loved ones, and contemplating all the beautiful, exciting, interesting, life-changing, humbling, discouraging, and painful things that life offered us in the past year. I find myself especially grateful to be entering 2011 without JAWS 11.