http://refresh-detroit.org/2008/11/20/november-19-accessibility-meeting-recap/ Refresh Detroit is a part of the Refreshing Cities organization. We are a group of web professionals whose goal is to promote web standards, usability, and accessibility, and to spread the knowledge of web design in the Detroit and Ann Arbor Michigan areas. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:16:05 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://refresh-detroit.org/2008/11/20/november-19-accessibility-meeting-recap/comment-page-1/#comment-21905 Accessible Twitter | .eduGuru Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:02:21 +0000 http://refresh-detroit.org/2008/11/20/november-19-accessibility-meeting-recap/#comment-21905 [...] Are these issues going to hinder Twitter from going mainstream? No, but our job as web professionals is to be the best at our craft and that means including everyone. Take a look at the recent Yahoo! article WebAIM Survey Shines Light on Screen Reader Usage to get an idea of the usage of these elements by screen reader users. Most web developers/project managers have never seen a user use a screen reader on their site, if you are interested in watching one there is a video available from the November 19th Refresh Detroit meeting, it’s pretty interesting stuff. [...] [...] Are these issues going to hinder Twitter from going mainstream? No, but our job as web professionals is to be the best at our craft and that means including everyone. Take a look at the recent Yahoo! article WebAIM Survey Shines Light on Screen Reader Usage to get an idea of the usage of these elements by screen reader users. Most web developers/project managers have never seen a user use a screen reader on their site, if you are interested in watching one there is a video available from the November 19th Refresh Detroit meeting, it’s pretty interesting stuff. [...]

]]> http://refresh-detroit.org/2008/11/20/november-19-accessibility-meeting-recap/comment-page-1/#comment-21497 Deborah Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:41:23 +0000 http://refresh-detroit.org/2008/11/20/november-19-accessibility-meeting-recap/#comment-21497 For those people interested in a form marked up using a definition list (I believe Dan mentioned it at the meeting), check out this page: http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/pb/test_08_1130.html For those people interested in a form marked up using a definition list (I believe Dan mentioned it at the meeting), check out this page: http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/pb/test_08_1130.html

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