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Monday, May 11, 2009 8:33 AM

ShawnWildermuth: Supporting ScreenReaders in Silverlight

http://wildermuth.com/2009/05/10/Supporting_ScreenReaders_in_Silverlight Nice quick post with a video…
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Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:02 AM

MIX09: Building Accessible RIAs in Silverlight

NOTE: This was cross posted from here My team focuses on US Government customers and partners.  To say that building accessible applications is important for our customers/partners would be a huge understatement.  I just watched the following
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 12:35 PM

Accessibility Toolkit for SharePoint v2.0 Released

Hi Software and Microsoft recently released version 2.0 of the Accessibility Toolkit for SharePoint. The intent of this solution is to provide a accessible development framework for Office SharePoint Server environments. Key features of AKS v2.0 include:
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Sunday, December 14, 2008 6:58 PM

WCAG 2.0 is now FINAL!!!

From SlashDot... "It has been going on nine years now, but finally there are formal standards for Web accessibility for technologies other than HTML . They ask that you start with the press release (lots of links), but regulars might be more entertained
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Friday, December 12, 2008 11:01 AM

IE 8 and Accessibility: Microsoft Improves IE8 for Disabled Users

From the article:   A post on the IEBlog by Accessibility Program Manager JP Gonzalez-Castellan highlights several user-interface features that should improve the accessibility of IE8, among them Caret Browsing, Adaptive Zoom and High DPI (Dots Per
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008 8:37 AM

Accessibility in Windows 7

Just published on the Engineering Windows blog, a great article about accessibility in Windows 7 http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/11/30/accessibility-in-windows-7.aspx -Keith
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Friday, November 14, 2008 11:38 AM

ATTENTION WEB DEVELOPERS WCAG 2.0 Moves to Last Stage in W3C Approval Process

For those of you (like me) who are interested in Accessibility and/or need to ensure your websites remain in compliance with section 508 you'll be interested to know that the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 was published as a W3C Proposed Recommendation
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 3:31 PM

SCREENCAST: Adding Closed Captioning to video using Silverlight, ASP.NET AJAX, WCF and an external data source

In my previous Silverlight Closed Captioning screencast here , I showed you how to use Expression Encoder to import Closed Captioning information to produce a solution without writing a line of code. What if you store your Closed Captioning information
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Friday, June 15, 2007 11:22 AM

Testing a WPF UI

I get asked about automated testing of WPF apps quite often. WPF has a nice feature called UI Automation. From the UI Automation Overview page on MSDN: "Microsoft UI Automation is the new accessibility framework for Microsoft Windows, available on all
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Friday, June 15, 2007 11:13 AM

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

V1 of the IE Developer Toolbar is available. One of the many features that Public Sector developers will find useful is a Section 508 checker. More here . -Marc
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Saturday, March 17, 2007 9:33 AM

Building ASP.NET 2.0 Web Sites Using Web Standards

I just came across this recently published article. A significant portion of it covers accessibility. You'll also want to download the Writing Accessible Web Applications document from MSDN Downloads. The document talks about accessibility with AJAX.
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006 7:17 PM

You MUST sign up for the Bi-weekly MSDN Flash

Just check out the latest issue at http://msdn.microsoft.com/Flash/ This a bi-weekly newsletter that can be customized to the topics you are most interested in. Mine arrived this morning and contained info on the redesigned Windows Vista Developer Center
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Monday, April 10, 2006 4:34 PM

Usability Toolbar & IE Spell-Checker

Sara Ford informed me about this post . I haven't tried either of the tools. There seems to be some overlap in functionality with the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar , but what craftsman doesn't like additional tools in their toolbox? -Marc Technorati
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Sunday, April 09, 2006 11:55 AM

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

This little gem is an invaluable tool for any web developer. "The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages." Here's a list of the features from the download
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Tuesday, December 27, 2005 11:05 AM

ASP.NET "Atlas" December CTP is out

I was doing my periodic "blog catch up" this morning and came across a few announcements about the latest drop of ASP.NET "Atlas." There's been quite a bit of rework, but I'll let you go to the source ( Brian , Nikhil , and Scott ) for all the details.
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