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- Target Sued Over Inaccessible Website
- CSS in Action: Invisible Content Just for Screen Reader Users
- Review of CommonLook Section 508 Plug-In for Adobe Acrobat
- Accessibility of AJAX Applications: Part 1- Accessibility Issues
- Tutorial: WAVE Accessibility Tool
- 'Skip Navigation' Links
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Target, a large retailer in the United States, has been sued by the National Federation of the Blind and a blind UC Berkeley student due to the inaccessibility of its web site. Disability Rights Advocates (DRA) has written an informative resource on the case. At the bottom of the resource, there are links to a fact sheet and a copy of the complaint filed by NFB on February 7th. The fact sheet is only available in Microsoft Word format and the complaint is only available in PDF format.
Most of the techniques for making Web content accessible to screen readers are invisible to visual users. This article examines a few circumstances in which hiding text from visual users can be beneficial, and proposes a solution which allows HTML to be hidden without compromising the accessibility or semantic integrity of the document, and which works across browsers and platforms.
The CommonLook Section 508 PDF Plug-In is an Acrobat plug-in that can help you create more accessible PDF files. It guides you through a step-by-step evaluation and repair of a PDF file according to US Section 508 standards. Jon Whiting has written a review of its strengths and weaknesses.
Read WebAIM's responses to the following questions: -What is AJAX? -Why AJAX? -Why Not AJAX? Also included in this article is a list of resources related to the accessibility of AJAX
This tutorial steps users through the process of evaluating web content for accessibility using WAVE 3.5. As with all tools, human-mediated evaluation is the best approach, and WAVE is designed specifically to help users make the kind of judgments that only humans can make.
This tutorial is an excerpt from the "WebAIM Guide to Web Accessibility Techniques and Concepts." Topics include various techniques for creating "skip navigation" links (visible, invisible, visible with keyboard focus, etc.), how to phrase the link, dealing with browser bugs that can make the link useless, and alternatives to "skip navigation" links.
This tutorial is an excerpt from the "WebAIM Guide to Web Accessibility Techniques and Concepts." Topics include the keyboard accessibility of links, screen reader accessibility, appropriate link text, link appearance, same-page links, groups of links, and more.