Link Roundup - October 2010

• Color Blindness Myths and Misunderstandings by @joedolson
• Web Design for Dyslexic Users
• British Standard 8878 on Web Accessibility
• Temple Gate: An Accessible HTML5 WordPress Theme
• Awesome freebie: Web #Accessibility Checklist (POUR) Desktop Wallpaper
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 to 2.0 Transition Cheat Sheet
• JAWS 12 screen reader is released
• What’s new in Acrobat X accessibility (Adobe)
• Accessibility is Not A Feature presentation slides by @uxprinciples from Accessibility Camp DC
• Do CAPTCHAs Block Spam or Your Readers?
• We Haven’t Forgotten About Accessibility, Have We?
• How to Increase Your (Podcast & Blog) Audience Through Accessibility - SlideShare presentation by @podfeet from BlogWorld 2010
• Meeting WCAG 2.0 with Flash
• Disabling JavaScript: Asking the wrong question
• JetBlue airline sued for lack of website and kiosk accessiblity. For updates follow @LFLegal
• All jQuery Mobile components are ARIA accessible
• ARIA Roles 101 - a good, brief introduction
• Top 10 Things CIOs Need to Know About Accessibility
• President Obama Signs Accessibility Act by @awkawk of Adobe
• Testing title attributes as form control labels with screen readers - from Accessible Culture
• Javascript Accessibility Guidelines
• WCAG 2.0 AAA - A Journey Not a Destination by @mgifford
• Aaron Gustafson's presentation Progressive Enhancement with ARIA (Slideshare)

Podcast #85: Drupal 7 Accessibility

Dennis speaks with Everett Zufelt (@ezufelt) on Drupal and the accessibility improvements in Drupal 7 which is now in beta. Drupal is an increasingly popular open-source content management system (CMS).

Download Web Axe Episode 85 (Drupal 7 Accessibility)

[Transcript of podcast 85]

Transcript sponsored by Accessibility DC (@AccessibilityDC), meetups on accessibility in the Washington, DC, area.

Related links:

• Drupal Accessibility Group
• Drupal Issue Tracker
• Drupal Accessibility Statement

Awards

• dot net magazine Best of the Web awards announce finalists October 20.
• Nominate Accessible Twitter in the Mashable Awards.

Conferences

• Next month is Accessing Higher Ground conference near Denver, Colorado.
• Dennis will be giving a keynote address at Knowbility’s AccessU West conference in San Jose, California, January 2011.

Hot Topics

• JetBlue sued for lack of accessibility in its website & kiosks. Filed by Law Office of Lainey Feingold (@LFLegal).
• All jQuery Mobile components are ARIA accessible.
• President Obama Signs Accessibility Act (21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010) by Andrew Kirkpatrick (@awkawk) of Adobe.
• Meeting WCAG 2.0 with Flash from Adobe.
• HTML5 accessibility, holes & fixes by Steve Faulkner and Slideshare presentation and Hans Hillen i.e. structure, form controls, canvas, audio/video.

Web Accessibility Jobs

A good sign! Here are more than several job openings relating to web accessibility posted within the last month or so. (U.S. and Canada.)

• Facebook: User Experience – Accessibility (Palo Alto, CA)
• Salesforce.com seeks Senior Accessibility Specialist (San Francisco, CA)
• Contract job Web Portal #Accessibility Business Analyst (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
• Online Communications Coordinator/Web Developer at The National Abortion Federation (Washington, D.C.)
• ADVANTIS Global Services seeks Senior Front End Developer (Charlotte NC)
• CGI Consulting seeks a Section 508 Accessibility Specialist (Fairfax VA)
• Deque Systems seeks a Section 508 Tester (Washington, D.C.)
• Apple has four accessibility engineering opportunities (Cupertino, CA)

For more, on Twitter, follow my account @webaxe and @a11yjobs. Kudos also to @ppatel and @lauraupcott.