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- Articles
- Access + Key Still Equals Accesskey
- This article is a re-print of an Official Comment made to the Editors of the XHTML 2 Draft Recommendation. It is presented here in a more open form to hopefully stimulate discussion and debate.
- Accountability in Accessibility Testing
- While Accessibility Testing tools exist, all too often the testing process is incomplete, and many pages which claim conformance to a declared standard fail.
- An Introduction to P3P - The Platform for Privacy Preferences
- P3P (The Platform for Privacy Preferences) creates the framework for standardized, machine-readable privacy policies, and consumer products that read these policies.
- Demonstration of the LONGDESC attribute and the 'd' link
- When images are provided to illustrate complex ideas, the same information MUST also be provided in an accessible form.
- Determining Readability
- One area of accessibility often overlooked is the readability of the content of your web pages.
- Relative Sizing and Images
- Few people realize that with today's modern browsers, relative sizing can in fact be added to images as well as text elements on your web page.
- The Firefox browser and JAWS - at last!
- Our favorite browser finally bites. First off, let''s be very clear. We like Firefox. A lot! But up until now, it lacked the teeth required for users in the visually impaired community.
- The Importance of Code Validation
- Authoring to standards allows developers a level of assurance that what they are posting to the web will be accessible not only to the popular browser of the day, but to any standards compliant user agent in the marketplace.
- Understanding Cookies
- Some Web sites store information in a small text file on your computer. This file is called a cookie.
- Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
- With the emergance of Standards based Unicode font support in modern browsers, web developers can create content for specialized groups of individuals, including Canada's Northern Aboriginal peoples.
- Using Accesskeys - Is it worth it?
- The HTML4 feature known as ACCESSKEY is a navigational enhancement that allows you to jump to an active element (such as a form control or a link) on a page with a single keystroke - but is it worth it?
- Education
- Developing an Accessible Web Site
- This full day seminar is designed for web development teams seeking to understand the issues surrounding web accessibility and looking to ensure their sites meet current accessibility guidelines and standards.
- Expertise
- Web Accessibility Specialist - Catherine Roy
- Catherine Roy has been active in the field of disability issues for the last 15 years. She has worked for and with various organizations on a variety of key issues for persons with disabilities, such as: barrier-free design, health and social services, education and job integration as well as institutional and governmental policies and programs.
- Web Accessibility Specialist - John Foliot
- John Foliot is an internationally recognized web accessibility specialist, Internet consultant, site developer, and corporate trainer, who has been creating and managing web sites for over 8 years.
- Home
- Providing Web Accessibility Consulting since 2001
- The principals of WATS.ca who previously delivered extensive technical consulting to the former TBS/WATS Accessibility testing service are now making their expertise available to your branch, department or organization. We work with both public and private sector clients to create web sites that are universally accessible, fast, focused and easy to use. We offer Web Development, Education, Testing and Strategy services.
- Resources
- .htaccess, MIME Types and Handlers
- An .htaccess file is a special file that can be used to tweak the web server configuration, so that the server behaves differently for the directory it is in (i.e your web site) and all directories below it. Mime Types (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) represent file types as presented to your web browser.
- Accessible iso-8859-1 Table
- Often the tools we use are readily available on the 'net, yet for whatever reason the sources are less than accessible to users of Adaptive Technology.
- Accesskeys and Reserved Keystroke Combinations
- In a non-scientific study conducted in the summer of 2002, we researched the availability of available Accesskeys. The results indicated a real problem in that most keystroke combinations have already been reserved by one type of application or another.
- HTTP Error Codes (and what they mean)
- Web servers will use the following Error Codes when something goes awry. Knowing what they mean enables you to fix the problem, or create custom error pages.
- Testing Tools for Developing Accessible Web Sites
- For those developers out there who would like to try and build an accessible site, or would like to just have some neat and useful testing tools, we have collected a few which are provided here as a service.
- Words With Dignity
- Often, web developers and others responsible for producing accessible web content are at a loss to describe the various forms of disability their users may be dealing with.
- Working with JAWS: Keystroke Quick Reference Chart
- Using the JAWS screen reading software requires that the user know a large set of keystroke combinations to get the most from the application.
- Strategy
- Web Accessibility Testing
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