AJAX and accessibility - Jaws to the rescue?

RIAs like Ajax often have an accessibility weak spot since they need to work with JavaScript off to meet the basic accessibility guidelines.

Rumour has it that the next version of the popular screen reader Jaws may be able to handle Ajax interfaces. 

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Accessibility Best Practice - Switch Off to Get On?

After the high profile that accessibility was given 18 months ago following the introduction of the Disability Discrimination Act, have things really changed?

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Reasons to avoid Flash on your website

Web developers and businesses continue to develop Flash based websites, despite the well-documented drawbacks in terms of SEO and usability.

When used well, Flash can be a great tool for the presentation of rich content, but pure flash websites, though they may look good, can annoy the hell out of visitors.

After the jump, some reasons why...

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Press Release: Poor standards for impaired web users put accessibility high on the agenda at International World Wide Web conference

The continued poor standards of web sites for the visually, learning and hearing impaired has led to accessibility appearing high on the agenda at the 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2006) in Edinburgh.

The conference, organised by the University of Southampton in association with...
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Press Release: Scottish Executive supports national conference on Public Sector web accessibility to educate professionals in latest guidelines

Leading names explain practical approach to best-practice web site accessibility in light of new guidelines

In the light of significant recent changes to web accessibility guidelines, several leading companies in the field of accessibility are teaming up to hold a major UK national conference to educate...
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Press Release: Local Government Sites Summary Feb '06

New number one this month, Portsmouth take the top spot from Thurrock. Again for another month the worse site based on our range of performance measurements, function and compliance checks (HTML/eGMS/Accessibility/Metadata) was Dungannon and South Tyrone.

21 websites were without any errors; West...
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Usability & accessibility market worth £115m in 2005

*** Increased understanding of commercial benefits of usability and accessibility to boost UK market spending to almost £150m by the end of 2006, according to the internet research publisher E-consultancy. ***

London, 23 February 2006: The combined UK Usability and Accessibility markets grew 28% in...
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Press Release: A winning partnership see’s Leicestershire Constabulary Force's website ranked number one in SiteMorse's 'Police Websites Report'.

Rock Kitchen Harris has worked with Leicestershire Constabulary for several years and together we have developed the Force's website and have solved communication issues that police and similar organisations face.

After several months of careful planning and development, a major upgrade of www.leics.police.uk...
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Press Release: Banks Websites Report and Ranking – January 2006

Overview of findings
Top of the league and best site overall was Skipton Building Society (www.skipton.co.uk). At the bottom of the table, representing the poorest site overall was Investec Bank (UK) Limited (www.investec.com/unitedkingdom).

For a copy of the full report, at no charge please email...
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Press Release: Poor Website Accessibility Can Affect Customer Trust

The presence of an accessibility statement or logo on a website does not necessarily give an accurate picture of that website’s accessibility according to research conducted by Professor Helen Petrie, Director of Research at London-based User Experience consultancy Designed for All.

The research found...
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