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The accessibility of java script is very interesting there are many people those who think that AJAX scripting techniques can be accessible to screen readers but what those people think is wrong since the AJAX most of the part cannot be accessible to screen readers so by knowing this many were worried about the problem but it is not a problem at all, there are many solutions for the people those who are attempting to make their web applications accessible, most of the computer users use mouse for the graphic interface navigation but many of the

Customizable scroll bars on various browsers is very much possible and viewable. You can add a customized scroll bar at your website without the complaint of any browser not supporting the bars if you read about the FleXcroll Standards Compliant ScrollBar. The author of FleXcroll describes about supporting features of a keyboard scroll bar and mouse-wheel supported scroll bar along with text selection. Hesido, the author, has tried but it is not much impressive though. The best solution to this problem is to design an unobtrusive method to

Web developer James Edwards would probably almost go so far as to say that it's offensive to him when people complain that web accessibility is a cumbersome process. To help fight this idea, he has created an article bringing up something that many of us may not think of; mouse-less navigation. "Most of us use a mouse for the majority of our graphic interface navigation, but some people can't, and must therefore navigate using the keyboard instead. For a person who has a hand tremor, for example, the precision control required to use a mouse

The Multimodal Toolkit adds extensions to Rational Application Developer to provide multimodal functionality, allowing the development of applications with both visual and voice user interfaces. The Toolkit provides an integrated development environment that can minimize both the skills and time needed to develop applications for XHTML+Voice aware PDAs and other handheld wireless devices. XHTML+Voice (X+V) is a Web markup language for developing multimodal applications for wireless devices. X+V uses both voice and visual elements of user interaction.

In What’s *Your* Story?, Ian Lloyd wants to know what made everybody get into Web accessibility. It’s a great question, and I find it very interesting to read the stories people have posted so far. Personally I have several reasons for advocating Web accessibility. First of all an idealistic one: * I want everybody to be able to use the Web. I am not disabled (yet), so I can (and am often forced to) muddle through sites that are badly built, but a person with a disability may not be able to. Since it is possible to build sites that almost

Web accessibility refers to the practice of making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities. When sites are correctly designed, developed and edited, all users can have equal access to information and functionality. For example, when a site is coded with semantically meaningful HTML, with textual equivalents provided for images and with links named meaningfully, this helps blind users using text-to-speech software and/or text-to-Braille hardware. When text and images are large and/or enlargable, it is easier for users with poor sight