The audio and video podcasts are not accessible to blind or deaf individuals, about the accessibility of emerging technologies has been an issue which many of the innovators are finding to solve, there are two ways in making the podcasts more accessible. Podcast transcription services are closed and captioning services are available, the accessibility of podcasting is not only to the podcasting individuals that are with disabilities but it permits who like to receive the information in a different media there are many benefits in the
There are two things that has to be kept in mind by the person one who want his web site to be accessible the first thing is to be done is specification of the accessibility which is essential in the elements definition, and the second thing that has to be done is should arrange the site which should be tested for accessibility, the person should take more care about the first point it is not just accessibility of the site, compared to the first point the second is much more difficult because the person cannot define what needs to be tested and what are
"If you want your website to be accessible there are two things you absolutely have to do:
Specify that accessibility is essential in your requirements definition.
Arrange that the site is tested for accessibility.
The first requires a bit more than just saying "the site must be accessible" but there are lots of examples of such requirements and people who can help you write them.
However, the second is much more difficult because:
Defining what needs to be tested is complex: what disabilities, what functions, what assistive technology,
Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone Maximum Accessibility tells you how to make the World Wide Web more accessible and more usable for everyone, including over 600 million people around the world who have disabilities. That includes 54 million Americans (almost 6 million of whom are children) and 37 million people in Europe Bureau of the Census 1997; United Nations 2000. We've written Maximum Accessibility for Web designers, developers, and programmers who create complex, data-driven Web applications; full-time Web
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If you TRULY think that Flash is accessible, then you have just lost any credibility with me (as a professional web developer). Show me how Flash is accessible (to everyone, not just disabilities). It requires a plugin, and is virtually blind to a very important visitor - the search bot. Flash STILL has not come up to par with being optimized with searching and search engines.
Flash tries to replace the medium itself and remove the browser. Though some of these are due to poor development practices, please show me
If you TRULY think that Flash is accessible, then you have just lost any credibility with me (as a professional web developer). Show me how Flash is accessible (to everyone, not just disabilities). It requires a plugin, and is virtually blind to a very important visitor - the search bot. Flash STILL has not come up to par with being optimized with searching and search engines.
Flash tries to replace the medium itself and remove the browser. Though some of these are due to poor development practices, please show me a site that handles the
Did you know that nearly 20 percent of all Web users have some form of disability?
“Making your site accessible for all is a matter of courtesy, is good business practice, and is not difficult,” explains Robert Roberts, a professional SEO who owns the SEO Toolbox (http://www.seotoolbox.com).
In fact, Roberts believes that Web accessibility issues are so important that he’s been having monthly chat sessions on the subject for students at the Academy of Web Specialists (http://www.onlinewebtraining.com/courses.html). He’s also created a
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