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Free Web Browser Software Developed for People Who Are Visually Impaired

by David Mascarina on July 21st, 2008 under Current Events, We Recommend

From Occupational Health and Safety

Lighthouse International, a leader in advocating accessibility for people with low vision, recently unveiled an innovative add-on software tool that will enable millions of people worldwide with low vision to access previously inaccessible web pages. Continue reading Free Web Browser Software Developed for People Who Are Visually Impaired

Talking websites improve accessibility and sales

by David Mascarina on July 21st, 2008 under Best Practices, Current Events, We Recommend

Peter Abrahams By: Peter Abrahams, Practice Leader - Accessibility and Usability, Bloor Research
Published: 21st July 2008
Copyright Bloor Research © 2008

Textic Limited, the text to speech solutions specialist, recently announced the commercial launch of Talklets, the Web 2.0 service that ‘voice-enables’ text-based Web content.

So why should you want to voice-enable your web site? The simple answer is that it adds an extra level of accessibility to the site and further ensures compliance with existing and proposed legislation around the world; but that is only part of the answer. Continue reading Talking websites improve accessibility and sales

TinyURL Made my Site [Valid]

by Joseph Karr O'Connor on April 20th, 2008 under Best Practices, We Recommend, Web Standards

So there I was, one more time validating our main page at work, expecting it to pass W3C HTML validation. I ran Validate HTML under Tools in Chris Pederick’s Web Developer’s Toolbar and the page failed. We run validation frequently on that page, and it was passing almost all the time. So what was up?

All I did was add a link. Continue reading TinyURL Made my Site [Valid]