[IxDA Discuss] 508 compliance

[Janna Cameron]

For anybody that is taking a first look at accessibility, I'd highly
recommend "Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites:  Observing
Users Who Work with Screen Readers" by Ginny Redish and Mary Frances
Theofanos.
http://redish.net/content/papers/interactions.html

I like this paper because it provides tools and knowledge for problem
solving, instead of a static rule list.

Janna Cameron
Usability Specialist
Desire2Learn Inc
1-519-772-0325 x388
janna.cameron at Desire2Learn.com
http://www.Desire2Learn.com 
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Allison Bloodworth
Sent: April 6, 2007 4:18 PM
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Folks may also be interested to know that you can download copies of the
screen reader software packages JAWS & Window Eyes and use them for free
for 40 minutes every time you reboot your computer:
http://www.webaim.org/articles/screenreader_testing/. Though admittedly
they are difficult to learn and you won't get as good data by testing
with them yourself as you would testing real screen reader users (e.g.
do the users
*really* use that keyboard shortcut that you think makes it easy to
access your content?), I've found it incredibly eye-opening to spend
even a short amount of time playing with them. Another way developers
can see *what it's really like* to use a screen reader (e.g. you have to
find things on a web page without being able to see it) is by using
WebAIM's screen reader
simulator: http://www.webaim.org/simulations/screenreader

Allison Bloodworth
Principal Administrative Analyst
Technology Program Office
University of California, Berkeley
(415) 377-8243
abloodworth at berkeley.edu


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