That Standards Guy

Genius! Courtesy of Bruce Lawson’s blog comes this piece of irony. Institute for the Blind website in Flash!

From this year’s SXSW convention via A Box of Chocolates:

Accessibility… why can’t we all just get along?
This page documents the South by Southwest Interactive panel, Accessibility: Can’t We All Just Get Along?, on Sunday, March 13, 2005. The documentation includes an audio recording of the panel, a text transcript with timecodes, representations of the slides […]

The web application development strategy here at work is based on asp.NET. These tips for improved accessibility in ASP.NET 1.1 will hopefully be of use to all asp.NET programmers having to do their best with providing some level of accessibility.

An interesting opinion from Derek Featherstone over at Box of Chocolates on the topic of what is accessibility. Joe Clark’s latest ALA article on PDF accessibility, provides the contention:

The goal of the accessibility advocate is to improve accessibility for people with disabilities, period.
Tommy Olsson disagrees and believes it is about making the web accessible to […]

Great timing with the discovery of this article via the Accessify forums. I’m currently working on a proposal for a web development strategy that will, amongst other things, include identifying best practices for creating forms. So without further ado, the article link: Accessible Form Guidelines, The do’s & don’ts of accessible form design, Complete with […]