Welcome to the Microsoft Accessibility blog! This is a central blog all about accessible technology from the Microsoft community of people passionate about accessibility. Various people will blog here on topics such as the end-user experience, the developer experience and the underlying technologies that enable accessibility.

March 2008 - Posts

• Inspiration from CSUN's 23rd Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities

  We recently participated (and helped sponsor) the fabulous, annual Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities , which is commonly referred to by its hosting university, CSUN. It was a whirl-wind of keynote speeches, presentations on best practices Read More... Posted Friday, March 28, 2008 3:50 AM by AnnuskaP | 1 Comments Filed under: community events

• Remembering John Slatin

  John Slatin, the former co-chair of the W3C's WCAG 2.0 Working Group , passed away Monday night. John had a profound influence on that standard and on the field of Web Accessibility. It was always a pleasure to work with him and he will be missed. Read More... Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 8:09 PM by Cynthia C | 1 Comments

• UI Automation Support for Silverlight 2.0 Announced at MIX

  We've just announced support for UI Automation in Silverlight 2.0 . There's a lot of Accessibility stuff happening at MIX. I can't wait for CSUN. Read More... Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 10:50 PM by Cynthia C | 0 Comments Filed under: Web Accessibility, MIX, Silverlight

• University Students: enter the Imagine Cup Accessible Technology contest (open until 5/2/08)

  Do you have aspirations to showcase your design skills and creativity? The Microsoft Imagine Cup is a great opportunity to do so! The Cup is for university students around the world. There are various contest categories, such as software, gaming, embedded, Read More... Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 5:35 PM by AnnuskaP | 1 Comments Filed under: community events

• Want Accessibility Features? Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 has them.

  I've been waiting for this one. Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is out, and it has features that will make it much easier for Web developers to make their pages accessible. The one that's getting the most buzz is the new support for the WAI-ARIA spec from Read More... Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 5:20 PM by Cynthia C | 1 Comments Filed under: ARIA, WAI-ARIA, Internet Explorer 8, DHTML, Web Accessibility, DHTML Accessibility