Category Archives: Accessibility

The art & craft of creating web sites everyone can use

Educause Midwest 2009

Posted on April 13, 2009 by cbd

Recent trip #3: Educause Midwest 2009. With Richard Chamberlain and Rebecca Fauvie, I presented on Western’s response to the IITAA, summarizing a lot of my release-time work to improve web accessibility at WIU. We had pretty good attendance and good … Continue reading →

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Adding the web to ADA

Posted on June 29, 2008 by cbd

Cyndi Rowland: changes to the Americans with Disabilities Act are afoot; help ensure the web is added to the law’s scope Continue reading →

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Improving course accessibility

Posted on April 11, 2008 by cbd

I’m applying for an internship which would facilitate a web accessibility project. Continue reading →

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RIP John Slatin

Posted on March 25, 2008 by cbd

John Slatin died last night. Just last week I was talking about Maximum Accessibility with a student in preparation for a presentation; I got the book out and was reminded how excellent it really is. I didn’t know John well, … Continue reading →

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Dot slash filler

Posted on December 7, 2007 by cbd

Joe Clark provides the web page for the Greater Toronto Transportation Authority (aka Metrolinx) as rendered by JAWS. Ouch.

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Accessibility, locally

Posted on November 2, 2007 by cbd

Clay Spinuzzi points to some recent events in web accessibility. The updates to Section 508 and the UAAG catch my eye. Locally, now that Illinois has a web accessibility law, Western is moving less slowly to fix its web accessibility … Continue reading →

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Odds and ends Friday

Posted on June 8, 2007 by cbd

Light on the blog as I’ve been heavy on everything else here lately. Accessibility: the WCAG Samurai (Joe Clark &c.) have published the draft of their errata to WCAG 1.0. Also recently, the Illinois web accessibility bill passed the house … Continue reading →

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WCAG 2 update

Posted on May 18, 2007 by cbd

WCAG 2 is out. There is a diff-like version, but it’s not very well done. And today I moderate a panel on accessibility at C&W. Good timing!

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Accessibility workshops

Posted on April 2, 2007 by cbd

My del.icio.us shows that Friday I attended an accessibility workshop given by Jon Gunderson of UIUC. I’m happy to say I didn’t learn that much, which means I’ve been paying attention. But that’s not to discount the value of the … Continue reading →

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Educause Midwest (MWRC07)

Posted on March 13, 2007 by cbd

Our dean, working through our provost, asked me and a bunch of other folks from Western to attend Educause Midwest 2007 to learn some interesting things we can do to improve our IT climate. I’m not going to try to … Continue reading →

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