The W3C Accessible Rich Internet Applications 1.0 specification (ARIA) is currently in "Last Call". The purpose of ARIA is to provide a means for web authors to explicitly identify roles, states, and properties of interactive user interface components on web pages, thereby making them accessible to users of assistive technologies (AT). ARIA introduces the role […]
I won’t bore you with clichés about the relationship between risk and living a full life, but I stumbled across these old photos recently and thought they could express this relationship much better than words. (Note: These images are described at the bottom of this post, but the description isn’t words, it’s pictures, rendered non-visually […]
Yesterday Kyle Weems, aka CSSquirrel (who incidentally I just recently learned is a fellow ‘Hamster) discussed in his blog a couple of strategies for adding long descriptions to his comics. One of the longest-running debates in all of web accessibility is how best to provide long descriptions of images on the web to people who […]
While you’re contacting your congressperson and encouraging them to support a public health care option, please take a moment to also encourage them to support HR 3101, the “21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009”. This bill was introduced by Massachusetts Rep Ed Markey on June 26 and is currently in committee. If […]
We at the University of Washington are working toward documenting a workflow that would support student interns in adding captions to the university’s growing collection of YouTube videos. There are now a dozen or more tools that support the authoring and editing of captions, and over the last couple of weeks I’ve been exploring several […]