why I never posted my research paper on RIA Accessibility

July 5, 2008

As readers may know, I graduated with my Masters in Computer Science this Spring. My research topic for my final Capstone project was on RIA (Rich Internet Application) Accessibility. When I first started digging deep into the subject, I posted about it frequently, and it has always been my intention to share my findings.
As it [...]

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Flash Indexing

July 1, 2008

As a previously scheduled post on accessibility and indexability went live, a few folks pointed me to some news on searchable/indexable swfs.
A few of the articles I checked out:

Google Now Crawling and Indexing Flash Content
Improved Flash Indexing (Official Google Webmaster Central Blog)
SWF searchability FAQ

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what’s the deal with… findability, searchability, indexability and accessibility?

July 1, 2008

As a front-end web developer, I often hear the terms “findable”, “searchable”, “indexable” and “accessible” thrown around interchangeably. For many, they mean that the content can be accessed by a non-human, be it a screen reader or a search engine spider. On some level this is true, but there are several significant differences that are [...]

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Making RIAs Accessible – Slides

June 6, 2008

Here are the slides from my second presentation from Spring <br />. Coming into this presentation, I was less nervous than about the first, which in some ways I believe contributed to a weaker presentation.
I had asked the conference organizers if I would have the same audience in the two sessions, and it was generally [...]

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Web Accessibility Acronyms – Slides

June 5, 2008

As promised, here are the slides I presented at the Spring <br /> conference on Tuesday.
Web Accessibility Acronyms was the first presentation of the breakout sessions, right after the morning keynote. I felt a bit nervous as I set up, but the proctor helping out was very nice and we chatted away before I started, [...]

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Web Accessibility Acronyms (conference teaser)

June 2, 2008

A few of the terms I’ll be covering in my session on Web Accessibility Acronyms tomorrow:
Regulatory Compliance: Section 508 (VPAT), WCAG1.0, WCAG2.0, ADA, DDA

Involved Parties: W3C, WAI, United States Access Board, AIA
Screen Readers: JAWS, Fire Vox, Window Eyes

APIs: MSAA, IAccessible2, UI Automation

RIA: WAI-ARIA, AxsJAX, AjaxAID

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Testing for Web Accessibility

June 1, 2008

This week I’ll be presenting two topics at Spring <br />, Web Accessibililty Acronyms and RIA Accessibility. As I was pulling together some resources to share, I pulled out a blog post I wrote for our Resource Interactive Technology blog. I figured I may as well share it here as well…

Is your site accessible? Web [...]

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For anyone interested in accessibility… interns blog about their experiences

May 15, 2008

(from the accessibility_sig mailing list)
As part of a TCDD funded project called AccessWorks, Knowbility has been able to hire interns with disabilities to perform web site accessibility assessment, to research employment and disability related topics on the web, and to blog about their experiences. While our interns have found a great deal of documentation out [...]

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Second Spring <br/> Session

May 14, 2008

I just got tapped to do a second presentation at Spring <br />:
Topic: Web Accessibility Acronyms (WCAG, WAI-ARIA, JAWS) – WTF?
Description: It’s no longer enough for a developer to know Java, .NET, PHP, AS, HTML, CSS, JS, XML (insert other TLAs as applicable), now they’re expected to be experts on WCAG, W3C, ADA, [...]

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Making RIAs Accessible

May 5, 2008

My topic suggestion for Spring <br /> has been accepted. On June 3rd, I’ll be presenting the following:

Topic: Making RIAs AccessibleDescription: Rich Internet Applications offer the site visitor a more interactive, engaging experience. But can this richness be conveyed to a user of assistive technologies, and how?
This session will differentiate between DOM-based (AJAX) [...]

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