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Refreshable Braille
When guest author Roger Hudson presents accessibility seminars or workshops, he usually asks those attending to indicate if they have seen a screen reader being used. Several years ago, it was not uncommon for only about 10 percent of the audience to indicate that they had. Recently, often more than three quarters of the people attending say they have seen a screen reader in use. However, nearly all assume a screen reader is an audio output device and when asked if they have seen a Braille device, the answer is usually no. So Roger and Braille user, Bruce Maguire, decided to create a video demonstrating a refreshable Braille device in use. They hope that this will provide viewers with both a basic understanding of how the device is operated and a feeling for what it might be like to access the web without relying on the senses of sight and hearing.
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Leveling the Playing Field: We’re all Differently Abled
Accessibility and web accessibility are often highlighted as issues for people with disabilities. This is no surprise, all things considered, given the common definition of accessibility. “Disability” is, however, an almost meaninglessly broad term. Many of those who could be considered disabled would not choose to self-identify as disabled. “Disability” is a label, and like any label, the members of the labeled group are diverse and may exhibit the label in unexpected ways.
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WordPress & Empty Searches
WordPress’ handling of empty site search inputs is far from satisfactory. Because the search form references the overall site address, submission of an empty search causes the site’s home page to be displayed. No error report. Nothing to indicate what has happened. Nada. Zilch. Nothing!
The solution, however, is blindingly simple and merely involves a few, fairly simple, changes to three WordPress theme files.
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WordPress and Accessibility
Many sites are built using WordPress (WP) as the content management system (CMS). Not just blogs but full-blown ecommerce sites and others. The power and flexibility of WP is evident by these implementations. And speaking of implementations, it was used as the CMS for a site recently built as a Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 implementation, to the level of AAA (one of two in the world with the other being Vision Australia). To learn more about that, here’s a short summary of the experience. This article is about WordPress’s end of things.
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