AccessibleNet.orgWeb accessibility links and resources.HP works on disability initiative- (Found June 24, 2008 ) "Hewlett-Packard Co. is leading an initiative to design "template" solutions that libraries can use to configure computers and workspaces for people with disabilities..."http://www.accessiblenet.org/cgi-bin/ext.cgi?id=1528 User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Become a W3C Recommendation- (Found June 24, 2008 ) "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has issued the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (UAAG 1.0) as a W3C Recommendation, representing consensus among developers and the disability community on accessibility features needed in browsers and multimedia players used to access the Web..."http://www.accessiblenet.org/cgi-bin/ext.cgi?id=1530 Making the Web More Accessible- (Found June 24, 2008 ) "The end of the year, which typically signals slowdown in the technology industry, instead saw a flurry of activity in the Web applications and Web services standards space..."http://www.accessiblenet.org/cgi-bin/ext.cgi?id=1531 Google News Search on 'Web Accessibility'- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Search for Web accessibility news at Google.com.http://www.accessiblenet.org/cgi-bin/ext.cgi?id=1264 FTSE 100 web sites failing basic accessibility tests- (Found June 24, 2008 ) "Twenty-one percent of the top UK companies have web sites that fail basic accessibility tests, according to a report by site monitoring company Business2www..."http://www.accessiblenet.org/cgi-bin/ext.cgi?id=1521 Congress pushed on Web accessibility- (Found June 24, 2008 ) "Advocates for people with disabilities want Congress to be forced into improving accessibility of its Web sites. Members of Congress have made progress in making their Web pages more available to people with disabilities in the two years since a law to improve the accessibility of taxpayer-supported sites was passed, but they likely would do even more if their compliance with the law was mandatory rather than voluntary, experts and advocates for people with disabilities said..."http://www.accessiblenet.org/cgi-bin/ext.cgi?id=1532 AOL kills Netscape- (Found June 24, 2008 ) "AOL-Time Warner has started the ball rolling by making most of its Netscape browser division redundant..."http://www.accessiblenet.org/cgi-bin/ext.cgi?id=1495 Spam-bot tests flunk the blind- (Found June 24, 2008 ) "An increasingly popular technique for preventing e-mail abuse is frustrating some visually impaired Net users, setting the stage for a conflict between spam busters and advocates for the disabled..."http://www.accessiblenet.org/cgi-bin/ext.cgi?id=1494 Web opens up for learning disabled- (Found June 24, 2008 ) "New software that will make websites accessible to people with learning difficulties will go on sale later this year. The software can translate websites using the Rebus symbol system The system, called Communicate Webwise, automatically turns information on pages into symbols or plain text..."http://www.accessiblenet.org/cgi-bin/ext.cgi?id=1707 Why over-60s are happy to become mouse bound- (Found June 24, 2008 ) "Despite a computer revolution showing many seniors keen on playing games, e-business is losing out on a 50bn market through poor internet access..."http://www.accessiblenet.org/cgi-bin/ext.cgi?id=1697 |