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Upcoming Talks: ARIA and Canvas
Allow me a little self-promotion while pointing you to interesting conferences where I will hold presentations. SXSW Interactive 2009 Most important is voting for my panels at South by Southwest (SXSW)...
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Accessible Drop-Down Menus
A few days ago a co-worker asked if DHTML drop-down menus pose a problem with accessibility. Since the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG) declared all JavaScript evil in 1999, assistive...
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The Accessible iPhone Cometh
One flaw of the iPhone is its inaccessibility for visually impaired users, despite some built-in accessibility features for other users. Now there’s light at the end of the tunnel: a few days ago...
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Accessibility Day in Vienna
Last week I talked at the Vienna Accessibility Day (“A-Tag”) about the emerging W3C standard for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA). The presentation went well as I included code fragments...
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European Accessibility Forum Frankfurt
So it’s been a little quiet here, the reason is that I’ve been busy organizing the European Accessibility Forum Frankfurt on March 27th, presented by my employer namics. The main idea is to present...
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Please Provide Padding
There are other websites were you can buy train tickets, but if you live in Germany it’s most likely that you will book a ticket on the website of Deutsche Bahn (German railways). Much has been said...
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Enhanced Keyboard-accessible Google Maps
Patrick H. Lauke wrote an excellent article about keyboard-accessible Google Maps on the Opera Developer website. Still I was able to improve it slightly when I implemented an accessible map myself. I...
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HTML 5 Haiku Contest
When I saw this picture of Bruce Lawson taken in a very poetic pose at London’s Standards.Next meetup, I remembered a haiku contest my favorite record label Bloody Fist hosted during the 2000...
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HTML 5 Accessibility at SXSW Interactive
SXSW is an enormous web conference in Austin / Texas with hundreds of panels squeezed into four days. The panelpicker application opened today and yours truly is hosting a panel on HTML 5...
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Guest Lecture on Accessibility
Last week I was invited to hold a guest lecture at the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz about accessible websites. After the successful barcamp at the University of Mainz in November the...
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