Link Roundup - September 2010

• Bonus! An offer to the HTML5 team to save longdesc by Vlad Alexander at XStandard
• Landmark Technology Access Bill Heads to President Obama's Desk
• Accessibility testing tools (Steve Faulkner, The Paciello Group)
• Response to HTML5 editor on Canvas accessibility (by Rich Schwerdtfeger)
• Adobe’s Andrew Kirkpatrick interviewed on Accessibility in Government (video)
• Accessibility for web writers, part 1: Introduction
• Assistive Technologies for Online Learning
• Web Accessibility day course by RNIB in Edinburgh (Oct) & London (Nov)
• Should Sighted Developers Use Screenreaders To Test Accessibility? (great comments!)
• Using Accessible Twitter With JAWS Screen Reader
• HTML5 Canvas Accessibility in Internet Explorer 9 by@stevefaulkner
• 20 Sites Assessed For Cognitive Web Accessibility
• Top 4 Reasons Why You Need to Address Web Accessibility
• WebAIM Aids eBay Accessibility Efforts
• Blind woman sues Canadian feds over online access
• Very entertaining video explaining closed captions (YouTube)
• Does your website legally need to be accessible? (U.S.)
• Web Design Guidelines for Low Bandwidth
• Web #Accessibility, Structured Negotiations & DOJ Rulemaking
• 10 Tools for Evaluating Web Design Accessibility
• WCAG 2.0 for Usability Specialists presentation (W3C) (April 2010)
• Facebook patent for 'social CAPTCHA' fails on accessibility
• Accessibility and the Law: How good UX can keep you out of court (U.S.)
• Raakt - The Ruby Accessibility Analysis Kit

Podcast #82: Deque Labs FireEyes

Dennis and Ross speak to Dylan Barrell (VP, Product Development) and Brian Kerr (Software Developer) of Deque Systems/Deque Labs. The main topic is the newly developed Worldspace FireEyes plugin for the Firefox browser which is being released in Beta status. It is a web accessibility tool that works in conjunction with the widely used Firebug Firefox extension. You can follow Deque Labs on Twitter.

Download Web Axe Episode 82 (Deque Labs FireEyes)

[transcript of podcast 82]

NOTE: As of June 28, the Worldspace FireEyes add-on has not yet been released. It's planned for end of June.

UPDATE: On July 1, the Worldspace FireEyes beta is released! Read the FireEyes announcement.

Chatter & News

• Refresh Detroit: Drupal Meetup Summary
• Dennis Lembree presented "Making JavaScript Accessible" at the Bay Area Ajax and JavaScript Meetup (BayJax) June 15, 2010 at the Yahoo! campus in Sunnyvale, California.
• Sign the online petition for screen reader accessibility for Google Chrome.
• Critiquing CA.gov Web Site Accessibility Page
• Dennis will be speaking at the Annual Assistive Technology Conference July 29 & 30, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.
• Accessibility Viewer Application Beta "AViewer" from The Paciello Group; Blog on AViewer from Joe Dolson; ARIA, DOM
• How Government sites have and now use Skip Links
• Whitehouse.gov improving their accessibility