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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
Posted by Public Sector DPE Team | 1 Comments
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
Posted by Public Sector DPE Team | 1 Comments
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
Posted by Public Sector DPE Team | 0 Comments
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
Posted by Public Sector DPE Team | 0 Comments
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.
Posted by Public Sector DPE Team | 1 Comments
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
Posted by FederalDev | 0 Comments
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
Posted by FederalDev | 0 Comments
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
Posted by FederalDev | 6 Comments
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.
Posted by FederalDev | 1 Comments
Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:08 AM

ASP.NET for designers

Are you a web designer or a developer interested in design? Well there's an ASP.NET section on MSDN just for you. The ASP.NET for Designers section is at http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/design/default.aspx . There's a nice set of design templates
Posted by FederalDev | 0 Comments
Tuesday, December 13, 2005 4:28 PM

CSS Properties Windows Add-in for Visual Studio 2005

This nifty new tool will give you the ability with Visual Studio 2005 to edit the styles that are inherited from a linked style sheet. Sandbox here: http://www.asp.net/sandbox/app_sandman.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=1 Download here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/8/B/68B66E20-FAAF-4F5A-AFF4-542FBBCD1530/CSSProperties.msi
Posted by FederalDev | 0 Comments
Monday, December 05, 2005 7:47 PM

Accessibility, Visual Studio 2005, ASP.NET 2.0

Good article and acknowledgement of the great progress the Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0 teams have made -- article by Bloor Research at http://www.it-analysis.com/content.php?articleid=13021&SESSID=5a4a9db278283d56041e6e482fef70f7 --Darryl
Posted by FederalDev | 0 Comments
Thursday, October 27, 2005 5:15 PM

Creating an Accessible Web Page (Screencast)

One of the things I hear often from our Federal customers is "How do I create Section 508 compliant web sites?" ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 to the rescue! Learn how to get started by watching my screencast and reading the related material here
Posted by FederalDev | 0 Comments
Friday, October 07, 2005 12:57 PM

The Code Room -- short 'TV show'

Check out http://www.thecoderoom.com/ -- a great, fun way to learn about some of Microsoft's latest tools and technologies. From their about page: The Code Room is a 1/2 hour pilot TV show that exposes technologists to the latest tools and technologies
Posted by FederalDev | 0 Comments
Monday, September 19, 2005 9:45 AM

Accessibility in ASP.Net 2.0

One of the things we are asked repeatedly from our Federal customers is how to ensure web applications are 508 compliant. We have heard you loud and clear and built rich accessibilty support into ASP.Net 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. Have a look at the
Posted by FederalDev | 2 Comments
 
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