I did a lousy job at publicizing our WCAG 2.0 webinar a few weeks back—- and I think there’s growing interest in having us run it again.  But before then, we have another webinar coming up that I think is even MORE interesting.
What could possibly be more interesting than the most influential web accessibility guidelines [...]

Whew!  What a couple of weeks it’s been!  In the middle of a HUGE proposal, we also had a webinar last week on WCAG 2.0 that went over really, really well despite some technical snafu’s.  If you’re interested in a repeat performance, just drop a line to Irena (our sales and marketing director) at irena@hisoftware.com.  [...]

Although not directly marketed that way, Lou Reed of The Velvet Underground has created an iPhone application that is principally about making contacts easier to see by increasing the font size. Lou Zoom doesn’t have the best reviews on the App Store yet (it is V1) but I did find it interesting to see [...]

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My last post on this topic was written during warmer, sunnier months.  Apologies for waiting this long to follow up.  In my previous post, I described how good web governance (or any IT governance) comes down to setting clear requirements and making sure that only pertinent requirements trickle down to [...]

It’s been awhile since we’ve posted here at Accessibility Watch.  Success, unfortunately, is a double-edged sword and sometimes means less time for other important tasks (e.g. keeping up with blog posts).  We’ve been running flat out for some time now on some exciting projects.  More on that later.
This week, I’m at the Accessing Higher Ground [...]

This week, HiSoftware and the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) announced the XML Enhanced VPAT Specification and online tool.  This is really exciting for us here at HiSoftware because it will make accessibility much easier.  It also leverages our technical and policy leadership in Section 508 and IT accessibility.  I also demonstrated an online tool [...]

I really benefitted from the results of the screen reader survey over at WebAIM. WebAIM will have their second screen reader survey through October 2009. The data from this survey will help inform what techniques should be used to make content more accessible.

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I was bitten by the requirements bug hard a few years back.  I read Karl Wieger’s Software Requirements text until my eyes bled.  I held Ivy Hook’s Customer Centered Products to my chest like a True Believer and sang her praises.  But it still seemed awfully complicated and that too many [...]

I recently came across a site that gave guidance about formatting a Microsoft Word 2003 document for accessibility. Yes, I know that Office 2007 is the most recent version but there are still a lot of Office 2003 users in the World and most of the advice can be transferred to the newer versions.
The guidance [...]

I have been dutifully tracking the Adobe SDK issue around turning on accessibility by default in Flex. Yesterday the issue was resolved as fixed so we can now expect that when developers get the new version of the SDK they will have accessibility turned on by default. This will be great for end-users [...]