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GAWDS Site Re-Design Competition
The Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS) is having a re-design competition. If you’re an accessible web developer, you might want to give this a go. It involves the creation of a single page template based on the mark-up seen on the home page — à la Zen Garden style. Just imagine if you win; the fame, the fortune, and the members of the opposite sex flinging themselves at you. How could you possibly pass up this opportunity? Here’s a reposting of the details as provided by Jim Byrne:
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GAWDS Launches Accessibility Training Course
An outstanding comprehensive self-study training course on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 covering Priority 1 and 2 (A and AA) web accessibility checkpoints is now available as a training resource on the Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS) website. This exclusive — and free — course offers articles, techniques, tutorials, and more, but the course’s introduction page explains it better…
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Truwex: A New Accessibility Tester
We were recently made aware of a new accessibility testing tool called Truwex Online 2.0 Beta created by Erigami of Moscow, Russia. It’s pretty impressive, so much so that we’ve added to our Resources Page line-up of testing tools. It seems to be a well-rounded tool and it offers one feature we found especially helpful…
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Give Joe Some Dough
Donate to Joe Clark’s Micropatronage We interrupt our regularly scheduled three part series on Designing for Dyslexics to bring you this public service announcement:
Love him or hate him, Joe Clark needs your dough… or money, moolah, cash, clams, or whatever name you give your currency. Joe is looking for day-to-day survival money while he raises $7 million (Canadian) to fund the Open & Closed Project. This is an accessibility research project aimed at developing accessible media standards in four areas:
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