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Dennis and Ross review web sites which should be great in web accessibility, but fail badly. The hosts provide a lot of constructive criticism, including many fixes that can be done in a minimal amount of time. Issues are also good to discuss as a reminder for our own work. Download Web Axe Episode 76 (Web Accessibility Disasters) Chatter Web Design Sketchbook give-away Dennis presented on Accessible Twitter at the Accessing Higher Ground conference TEDxDetroit - technology, education and design Excited about WordPress 2.9! Articles W3C WAI: Web Design and Applications Accessibility: the what, why links not underlined. Headings not marked up appropriately. Menu missing ul List not a list (see Compliance page). Inline / intrusive JavaScript. Job Accommodation Network (JAN) A service provided by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP). JAN's mission is to facilitate the employment and retention of workers with disabilities by providing employers, employment providers, people with disabilities, and family members with information on job accommodations, entrepreneurship, and related subjects. The Good Textual navigation; no Javascript based navigation. Has proper ALT text on pictures and JAN and ODEP logos. The Bad No heading tags; some marked up with bold tag. There is a summary on layout table (double whammy). No skip nav or skip to link provided. Inline javascript. Example: body onload="P7_ExpMenu()" Non-breaking spacing used for layout. The Rose Project Mission is to provide maternal and child healthcare to the economically poor people of Malawi, with particular reference to HIV treatment and care. One of nine listed for Most Accessible Website in the Irish Web Awards? The Good XHTML; semantic, clean mark-up Using headings Language is defined (xml:lang="en") SWFobject.js for unobtrusive flash embedding The Bad When JavaScript is unavailable, Flash replacement image has broken links and placeholder text. Skip links - Skip link doesn't work? 'Find out about ways to give' button. logo missing alt text for tag line. H1 headings should be H2 (such as Featured Project). Some links that should be underlined, are not. Use of small tags not recommended. Links lack the default focus effect and outline removed! DO NOT do this: :focus { outline-color:-moz-use-text-color; outline-style:none; outline-width:0; }

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Ross interviews web guru Jeremy Keith; Dennis and Ross discuss news, articles, and Google Wave. Download Web Axe Episode 75 (Jeremy Keith Interview, Google Wave) Chatter 15 Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter via Nancy White Interviewing Martha Lane Fox about Digital Inclusion by Sandi Wassmer (@SandiWassmer) News and Links Obama administration unveils Recovery.gov makeover (We reviewed original Recovery.gov site in Podcast #69.) New WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey Accessibility Review: PetsContained.com by Joe Dolson How Many People is Your Website Alienating? (Ross' article) Accessibility Review of Google Wave Google Wave Preview Accessibility Review by Jared Smith. Jared tactfully explains how web accessibility of Google Wave fails miserably. For example: Alternative text is not provided for any images. Background images are used to convey content. Roles, states, and other accessibility properties are not defined. There is no document or heading structure or semantics. Form elements do not have labels or titles. Keyboard focus indication is hidden, making keyboard navigation nearly impossible. Keyboard focus is often trapped. The application becomes unusable and unreadable when text size is increased only slightly. Jeremy Keith Interview Co-host Ross Johnson speaks with Jeremy Keith, Adactio.com, a web standards guru, author, and speaker. Here are some great Jeremy Keith links: Jeremy's articles Bulletproof Ajax book DOMscripting book Jeremy on Twitter: @adactio Clearleft - Web Design Agency Silverback - Usability Testing Software Related Links This Week in HTML5 – Episode 36 #Accessibility Building Accessible Flex and Adobe AIR Applications | MAX 2009 Develop | Adobe TVCreate a CSS3 Button That Degrades Nicely (Ross' article)

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, says that as video on the Web continues to grow, the movie industry needs evolve from a "channels" scenario to a "random access" platform, where films can be universally searched, watched and paid for. In accomplishing this, producers need to provide much greater metadata around their content. The transformation of video onto a data-rich "semantic Web" is a key objective of the World Web Consortium, the Boston-based group Sir Tim heads.Joost Was a Trailbaizer in the Semantic WebTwo years ago, we interviewed the W3C's Chief Architect Philippe Le Garet on the implementation of the semantic Web with data and video. Philippe addresses the pioneeering work of Joost in creating rich metadata around its content. Unfortunately Joost is closing shop, according to a report on TechCrunch.I interviewed Sir last week in Washington at the Embassy of Finland at a technology symposium presented by Finland's Technology Academy Foundation.Here is a 37-minute video of Sir Tim on stage at the event with New York Times reporter Steve Lohr. My first interview with Sir Tim was about the open data initiative and the U.S. and British governments.Andy Plesser, Executive Producer www.beet.tv

A super special podcast: First time face-to-face recording between Dennis and Ross. In Santa Cruz, California.4-Year Anniversary for Web Axe. Download Web Axe Episode 74 (Awards, Events & Back to Basics) ChatterAffordable niche advertising! Web Axe Nominated in 2009 .net Awards (twice!) Accessible Twitter winner of the the ACCESS-IT 2009 awards. Articles Are PDFs More Important Than Web Accessibility? Interview with Jamie Knight: autism and accessible web design HTML5 Canvas element and Accessibility Google Chrome Frame - accessibility black hole If a page is viewed through Google Chrome Frame in Internet Explorer no content is available to the user of assistive technology (AT). This can be illustrated using the Microsofts accexplorer tool. Events/Conferences Attended OpenWebCamp at Stanford Fall Web Accessibility Events Two Free Events in October An Event Apart, San Francisco 2009 Future of Web Design 2009 NYC Main Segment WCAG 2: Remember P.O.U.R.: Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, Robust Perceivable - Interface elements can not be invisible to users. Operable - Users must be able to interact with the interface. Understandable - Users must be able to understand with information and the interface (cognitive). Robust - Must be usable by a wide range of user agents and assisstive technologies. Use P.O.S.H.: Plain Ol' Semantic HTML Use headings and properly. P is for paragraph. blockquotes for quotes (not indentation). Use lists for lists, menus, etcetera. Definition Lists. Use strong and em tags versus b and i. Other topics: Alt text for non-textual elements. Tables Forms JavaScript Device-Independence Visual impairments Audio

Dennis and Ross provide nearly an hour of news, knowledge, and fun!Download Web Axe Episode 73 (Bandwidth even if the user is unable to have access to a broadband internet connection.Economic issue; many people simply can't afford broadband. Mobile--light and fast web sites can be more easily viewed on you phone! Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003 (study from 2003-2008 data) In the U.S. in March 2008, users connecting at 56Kbps or less now make up 11.18% of active Internet users.CWA Communications reported that the "median real-time download speed in the U.S. is a mere 2.3 megabits per second (mbps). The best available estimates show average download speeds in Japan of 63 mbps, in South Korea of 49 mbps and in France of 17 mbps. Chart shows that from January 1995 to January 2008, there was a tremendous growth of average page size and average number of objects. The average page file size went from 14.1k in 1995, to 93.7k in 2003, to over 312k in 2008. The average number of page objects went from 2.3k in 1995, to 25.7 in 2003, to nearly 50 in 2008.Related WCAG Guidelines WCAG 2.0 Principle 4: Robust Content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted reliably by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies. WCAG 1.0 Intro states:user may have a text-only screen, a small screen, or a slow Internet connection" and users "may have turned off support for images (e.g. due to a slow Internet connection)" Greatly outdated web portion of Section 508 doesn't mention internet connection speed. What You Can Do Use progressive enhancement. Optimize images; use sprites. Write clean code. Use external CSS and JavaScript files. For CSS, use link not @import. Combine multiple CSS files into one. Same for JavaScript. Use media domains. Minify CSS and JS files. Setup your server to send pages and files compressed. PHP Speedy (Apache/Gzip) How gzip compression works Cache dynamic data and Ajax when appropriate. More from the Big Boys More at Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site from Yahoo! And now, Let's make the web faster from Google, with fun little videos.

In 2010 a new protocol / code will be used for the creation of web pages. It is called html5. It is an upgrade to xhtml. html stands for hyper text markup language and it is fairly easy to learn and fairly easy to construct. If you want to see it go to View > page source. A good simple example is here : http://www.nowchangeyourlife.com/just4you/advice.htm.Am I teaching Granny to suck eggs? SorryA great web site to see html5 in action is Phase-5, a German site which I have translated > http://html5.nowhostyoursite.com [thanks Google, bit stilted but with its own charm] One of the key features of html5 seems to be its ability to handle video which this short demonstrates. You can also get a cheat sheet code description from the site.Anyway have a look and leave a comment. I am excited and will have something to show you in a couple of weeks. BTW filmed vertically as all the cool and fashionable sites are long and thin :)Tech Info : Another iPhone production - have to get a better method

Download Web Axe Episode 72 (Twitter Accessibility, Events, and News) Chatter Feedback for new Web Axe theme song? Opera 10 beta Where are the headings? AudioBoo "A Eulogy For IE6" by Paul Boag. Web Axe-Refresh Detroit Tweetup! Ann Arbor, Michigan, Saturday, July 18. Events/Conferences 12th Annual Accessing Higher Ground Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference 10-14 November 2009 Westin Hotel in Westminster, Colorado, U.S.A. IEEE Accessing the Future conference 20-21 July 2009 Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. LinkedIn event page Full Frontal JavaScript Conference 20 November 2009 One day; £100 Duke Of York's Picturehouse; Preston Circus; Brighton, BN1 4NA Twitter and Web Accessibility Accessible Twitter updates: Ajax for deleting DM. Popular Links page; added categories. Add URL shortening to DM page. Add (limited) functionality to update user profile. Compiled List of links from #TwitterBook (look who's first!) Other Accessible Twitter applications: Try a mobile web app. Tweete was created as an alternative to the mobile web and slandr mobile clients. Twitstat Mobile Slandr Dabr TwInbox - plug-in for Microsoft Outlook Tweet s60: totally accessible Twitter mobile app for Nokia Series 60 devices (via @AbilityNet @BlindTwit)Other issues: Accessibility issues with Twitter backgroundTwitter Quietly Fixes Broken Audio CAPTCHASoftware change makes Twitter more accessible for the visually impaired (CAPTCHA to re-CAPTCHA) More News Adopting WCAG 2 - from DingoAccess10 Ways to make your site accessible using web standards

Download Web Axe Episode 71 (Gez Lemon Interview & ARIA)New Song! This episode premieres the new Web Axe theme song, check it out! Created by Jeff Ensign. Gez Lemon, ARIA expertGez Lemon is a world leader in the web accessibility profession and its community. He as an Accessibility Consultant for The Paciello Group, a company devoted to accessibility in technology. He maintains a popular blog Juicy Studio in which he's written many excellent articles and innovative scripts. Gez is a member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force (ATF). He's become an expert in WAI ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications). You may also follow Gez on Twitter (or Accessible Twitter) @GezLemon. Related LinksIntroduction to WAI ARIAARIA Best Practices Web 2.0 Accessibility with WAI-ARIA FAQPaciello Group BlogHow Can I Validate (X)HTML + ARIA? (DTD for ARIA)Juicy Studio Accessibility ToolbarARIA for Google Calendar, Finance and NewsFocus Twitter Greasemonkey scriptNews LinksView the slides 5 layers of web accessibility.IBM & IEEE to host Accessing the Future conference in Boston, MA on July 20-21, 2009.

Here's a pretty bold quote from the TED website about Tim Berners-Lee: Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He leads the World Wide Web Consortium, overseeing the Web's standards and development. This is a fascinating TED Talk that looks at what the Web was, what he thought it would be, what it became and – most importantly – where it is going. Take fifteen minutes this weekend to imagine what the coming world is going to look like from somebody who changed the way we interact with technology and one another. If some of the stuff he says goes a little over your head or makes you feel uncomfortable, it's supposed to. All great changes and shifts disrupt and seem somewhat irrational when first introduced. You can also watch the video over on the TED website here: Tim Berners-Lee - The next Web of open, linked data. Tags: disruption internet internet development online video presentation technology ted ted talks tim berners-lee w3c web web standards world wide web world wide web consortium

Download Web Axe Episode 70 (Lots of News & Events) Chatter Web Axe over 2,000 subscribers, thank you followers! Phone call from Web Axe listener (from last podcast on Recovery.gov site review). Accessible Twitter updates. Dennis changed the name of his freelance company to Web Overhauls. Refresh Detroit: Noel Jackson from Automattic (wordpress) presented on transitioning from print design to web design. Tuesday we have a panel discussing writing for the web In the News Petition to make the Kindle 2 Fully Accessible - Web Axe signature number for this petition is 713. An Open Letter To Game Developers - "Game Accessibility. It's a loaded phrase and I know that it scares the hell out of many developers." The Jodi Awards For Excellence In Accessible Cultural Websites And Digital Media - Word files without proper headings and alt text. 9 Reasons Why Accessibility Matters 10 Accessibility Tips for RSS Feeds - Mmm...No different than regular web accessibility?! Ways to understand AT- Making accessibility more real Facebook Commits To Making Social Networking More Accessible For Visually Challenged Users ouTube launches CaptionTube: A caption editor WaSP InterAct Curriculum - Great resource! Events/Conferences Attended Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco @feather registration: Ajax/Accessibility workshop in Ottawa: http://furtherahead.com/workshops/ottawa2009/ promo code fatwitter $100 off The Access U 2009 Conference is coming up fast! It will be held at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, on Monday May 11 and Tuesday, May 12, 2009 (with post-conference sessions on May 13). Pricing and registration information. Accessibility in Technical Communication and the Workplace (June 13, 14, Churchill College Cambridge, England)

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This is the first of a two-part series introducing Semantic Marketing. Semantic marketing makes a determination about each visitor upon arrival and immediately displays relevant, meaningful content. Marketing on the Run (Episode 4)

The Semantic Web been the longtime vision of Tim Berners-Lee, the British physicist who invented the World Wide Web. It is a highly organized index of Web objects and pages. It is far from being implemented but is starting to emerge. Michael Zimbalist, head of R&D at The New York Times told me that the opportunities arising from the Semantic Web for The Times are "quite vast." In this in interview, he explains how comprehensive metadata annotation of content can make it "smart" so that content can become "device independent media," content consumed anywhere on any device. This is the promise of the Semantic Web as The Times sees it. The Semantic Web Explored by the Purple Channel The Semantic Web will be critical to search and consumption of Web video, I was told by earlier this year by Adobe's chief Dynamic Media evangelist Mark Randall. Last year we spoke with Philippe Le Hagaret, chief architect of the World Wide Web Consortium. I spoke with Michael Zimbalist at Advertising 2.0 yesterday in Manhattan. -- Andy Plesser Posted on Beet.TV on Thursday, June 5, 2008http://www.beet.tv/2008/06/the-new-york-ti.html

In this clip Margaret McKay, the e-Learning Advisor for Accessibility introduces the collaborative project between the Scottish RSCs and Coatbridge College.

Just as authoring software for Web page authoring is free, so should video encoding, said Philippe Le Hegaret, Architect Domain Leader at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3) headed by Tim Berners-Lee. Video encoding, the essential process in which video is compressed and converted for the Web, is a patented process controlled by Adobe, Microsoft, ON2 and others. These companies and industry associations license software called codecs, to be used in various formats including Flash, H.264, WMV and Silverlight. The W3C advocates a revolutionary idea: the availability a royalty-free encoding technology so anyone can create video without having to pay.An open-source, free codec called Theora, is about to get wide visibility with its emergence on the latest versions of the Mozilla and Opera browsers, where it is in very early Alpha. PC Week reported on this earlier this week. Theora is an early version of an On2 codec which was released by the company for the open source community. It has been developed by Xiph. Philippe is not sure that Theora is the answer to royalty-free encoding as there are complex patent law issues, but it's an important development, he says. In a glimpse of likely patent battles ahead, just this week, Nokia raised objections to W3C's approach to free codecs. Phillipe was in New York today where he was a speaker at the Web Video Summit. He was on a panel about video search moderated by the Silicon Alley Insider himself Henry Blodget. Other panelists were Blinkx CEO Suranga Chandratillake and Thomas Wilde, CEO of EveryZing.Tomorrow at Cisco's San Jose headquarters, he will co-chair an international panel on the future of Web video with a video conference hook-up with colleagues in Cisco's Brussels office. Who needs to sit in some fancy video conference room, when you can watch Philippe right here on the purple channel. Delighted to share this with you.Next installment of the interview, Philippe talks about the future of video on the "semantic Web" and the organization of metadata. -- Andy PlesserPosted on Beet.TV on Tuesday, December 11, 2007http://www.beet.tv/2007/12/revolution-vide.html