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News & Resources

Latest post: Screen Readers lack emphasis - In a recent thread on the Web Standards Group mailing list, the question arose about whether Screen Readers support semantic HTML elements such as strong and em. The short answer for the two main screen readers JAWS and Window Eyes is no. Neither do they support i or b for that matter. What is meant [...

Czech version of the Contrast Analyser 2.0 -

Analyzér kontrastu barev verze 2.0 by Petr Stohwasser

Now available - German language Web Accessibility Toolbar 2.0

Deutsch: Web Accessibility Toolbar DE - version 2.0 (1.3 mb installation file)

Screen Readers and display:none

Gez Lemon investigates screen readers attempts to accommodate image replacement techniques.

Contrast Analyser for MAC released

Cedric Trevisan has developed a version of the contrast analyser for MAC. Available in English, French, German, Italian and Swedish.

CSUN 2007 Presentation: Screen Readers and Javascript

Steve Faulkner's presentation at CSUN 2007 on Screen Readers and Javascript, now available.

Upcoming Events

SXSW Interactive Conference, March 7 - 11 2008 - Austin, Texas: Gez Lemon from TPG joins Martin Kleihm to discuss WAI ARIA.
CSUN 2008 - Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference, March 10-15, 2008 - Los Angeles, CA: Mike Paciello, Charlie Pike, Steve Faulkner, Hans Hillen and Mark Hakkinen from TPG will be presenting and running workshops.
W4A Conference - International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility Beijing 2008, Monday 21th and Tuesday 22nd April 2008: Mike Paciello(TPG) along with T.V. Raman (Google) are keynote speakers. Mike will be speaking about Web 2.0 & Accessibility
Accessibility 2.0: a million flowers bloom - 1 day conference focussing on the accessibility of Web 2.0 online applications, 25th of April 2008 - London: Steve Faulkner will be presenting along with Christian Heilmann from Yahoo and Jeremy Keith, author of Bulletproof AJAX.