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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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A11y

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.

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A11y

Putting it all together: Accessible HTML5 Audio Player with Yahoo! Media Player Fallback

This is my third in a series of blog posts documenting my efforts to create an accessible audio player. In the first (Creating Your Own Accessible HTML5 Media Player), I tested the current state of accessibility in browsers that support HTML5 audio, and given the shortcomings I found, opted to create my own custom player. […]

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A11y LIfe

Hot Apple Cider, Falling Leaves, and Three Great Conferences

Autumn is hands-down my favorite season. It’s time to throw on a sweater and an extra comforter, sip hot apple cider, and make big pots of scrumptious and spicy vegetarian chili. Autumn is also the season in which three of my four favorite conferences are held. I look forward each year to networking with others […]

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A11y

The Quest for an Accessible Flash MP3 Player

This was my second in a series of blog posts on creating an accessible HTML5 audio player. If you’re more interested in outcome than process, see the article Putting it all together: Accessible HTML5 Audio Player with Yahoo! Media Fallback. In my previous blog post, I described how I created an accessible custom HTML5 audio […]