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.
Browse by Tags
All Tags »
Web Accessibility (RSS)
-
WebAnywhere did indeed win a Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration! Congratulations! You can read about the awards at: http://matc.mellon.org/press-release . Read More...
|
-
Jeff Bigham and Professor Richard Ladner , from University of Washington, are in D.C. today for the 2008 Mellon Awards Ceremony . Their project, WebAnywhere , is nominated for an award, which celebrates technology collaboration in higher education, especially Read More...
|
-
At the TechEd EMEA conference in Barcelona a few weeks ago, during a talk on making web experiences accessible, we gave our first public airing of a video player written in Silverlight which is capable of meeting all of the WCAG 2.0 Time based media Guidelines Read More...
|
-
The University of Washington is conducted a study about a security feature on web sites. This feature, called "CAPTCHA" is often used when you are logging onto a web site for the first time and creating a user name and password. The research team is hoping Read More...
|
-
Bertrand Le Roy, a Program Manager on the ASP.Net team, has written a very useful article on DotNetSlackers.com about how to make UpdatePanel, used for AJAX updates in ASP.Net, accessible to screen-readers. Read More...
|
-
A group of people involved in the field of Web Accessibility has set up a project to honor John Slatin, the former co-chair of the WCAG 2.0 Working Group, and help advance his work in Web Accessibility. From The John Slatin Fund Accessibility Project Read More...
|
-
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...
|
-
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...
|
