University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
This document has been written for web designers who wish to make accessible interactive rich media. This guide to creating accessible Macromedia Flash assumes no previous knowledge of accessibility or assistive technology. [...]
Macromedia (Adobe): Best Practices for Accessible Flash Design
A cool idea once our site meets the Web Accessibility Guidelines. See ‘Accessibility Statement’ in footer.
NCAM has developed a Flash component that can be used to display captions of Flash video and audio content. These captions are stored in external files formatted in the W3C’s DFXP format which can be created with MAGpie, NCAM’s free captioning application. CC for Flash can also display captions saved in Apple’s QTtext format. QTtext files can be created by professional caption authoring tools, with MAGpie or with CaptionKeeper, NCAM’s line-21 caption-conversion tool.
The Nisonger Center at The Ohio State University, together with IDEAL Group, Inc., national experts, parents and school personnel are developing a three-tiered model to improve the academic and transition outcomes of high school students with disabilities. This model, called Access Tomorrow, builds upon the Envision IT Curriculum. Envision IT uses the context of the transition from high school to college/employment, emphasizing online exploration of students strengths, needs, skills, and career interests, to teach Information Technology skills that are integrated within Language Arts academic standards.
We on the Reader team are delighted to have a guest post today from Google usability expert T.V. Raman, who has announced on the Google Blog that Reader now supports ARIA-powered screenreading. Our thanks go out to T.V. and to Charles Chen, fellow Googler and creator of FireVox, for their work in enabling more people than ever to benefit from Reader. [...]
The Official Google Reader Blog: Reader and ARIA: A new way to read