[Accessibleweb] AccessibleWeb@U - Tools - December 20, 11:30am, MGH 015L

[Terry Thompson]

Thanks for these items, Pace. You said: 


> I have some other recommendations but they kind of depend on how technical

people want to get here. Any Java developers looking for applet tips on this
list? 

Sure - I'd love to see applet tips, or toolkits, code bases, classes,
libraries, etc. that folks are using to build accessible applications. 

Thanks! 
Terry

Terry Thompson
Technology Accessibility Specialist
DO-IT, Computing & Communications
University of Washington
tft at u.washington.edu
 


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> [mailto:accessibleweb-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On 

> Behalf Of Pace Arko

> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 12:42 PM

> To: accessibleweb at u.washington.edu

> Subject: RE: [Accessibleweb] AccessibleWeb at U - Tools - 

> December 20, 11:30am,MGH 015L

> 

> Hello everyone,

> 

> I too won't be able to attend this meeting but I do have 

> recommendations:

> 

> Windows, XP, Vista: 

> 

> Making certain your markup is kosher by your declared DTD is 

> a very helpful start to accessible web design. If you are 

> working with static HTML files I recommend TidyGUI:

> 

> http://pagesperso-orange.fr/ablavier/TidyGUI/

> 

> (Actually with a little tweaking and copy and paste, you can 

> use it to check any markup you have in CMS templates too. It 

> won't choke on most PHP and ASP code provide everything is 

> properly delimited. Don't know about ASP.Net though. The 

> other nice thing about TidyGUI is that you can run it from 

> the command line for bulk clean up of static files too. )

> 

> If you are working with a large number of static HTML files, 

> I strongly recommend ARV:

> 

> http://arealvalidator.com/

> 

> It's much faster than checking things against the W3C 

> validator and it's based on a SGML parser so you know it 

> ain't lyin'. It's shareware but it's worth it.

> 

> EA's recommendation of WAVE is better but, just as an 

> alternative since I've used it for so long, I'll throw out 

> A-Prompt's page testing tool:

> 

> http://www.aprompt.ca/

> 

> For captioning video, I recommend MAGpie:

> 

> http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/

> 

> It will generate captioning in either in SMIL or Microsoft's 

> proprietary SAMI formats. They also have this tool for OSX. 

> 

> I have some other recommendations but they kind of depend on 

> how technical people want to get here. Any Java developers 

> looking for applet tips on this list?

> 

> Finally a couple of websites you may have heard of here:

> 

> http://joeclark.org/book/sashay/serialization/

> http://diveintoaccessibility.org/

> 

> 

> That's it. Hope that helps,

> 

> Pace Arko,

> J-Say Product Specialist, Webmaster,

> Next Generation Technologies, Inc.

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> [mailto:accessibleweb-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On 

> Behalf Of E.A.

> Draffan

> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:53 AM

> To: 'Rick Ells'; accessibleweb at u.washington.edu

> Subject: RE: [Accessibleweb] AccessibleWeb at U - Tools - 

> December 20, 11:30am, MGH 015L

> 

> Please accept my apologies for not being able to attend this 

> meeting but I would really love to learn the results of your 

> deliberations as it is a subject we have been discussing in the lab. 

> My list includes

> WAVE from webaim

> Visicheck

> WebbIE with Thunder screenreader

> Opera in several modes

> Firefox Mozilla with Firefox Accessibility Extension inc. FAE 

> from Illinois and Web developer extension plus Accessibar.

> Internet Explorer with Web Accessibility Toolbar.

> 

> I am not a web developer but use Dreamweaver to put the 

> LexDis website together and Xerte to show any flash files and 

> the Illinois wizard for PowerPoints - I am now testing 

> assistive technologies with Vista and just hope the team can 

> offer the illinois wizard in a Vista version ASAP! 

> 

> Hope this helps and I am looking forward to learning from 

> your deliberations, as I have to evaluate many Web 2.0 sites 

> over the coming months and would love to have a useful 

> toolkit to hand! 

> 

> Have a very happy Christmas and New Year. 

> 

> Best wishes E.A. 

> 

> Mrs E.A. Draffan

> Learning Societies Lab,

> ECS, University of Southampton,

> Tel +44 (0)23 8059 7246

> http://www.lexdis.ecs.soton.ac.uk

> http://www.emptech.info

> 

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> -----Original Message-----

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> [mailto:accessibleweb-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On 

> Behalf Of Rick Ells

> Sent: 12 December 2007 17:20

> To: accessibleweb at u.washington.edu

> Subject: [Accessibleweb] AccessibleWeb at U - Tools - December 

> 20, 11:30am, MGH 015L

> 

> 

>        Topic: Good Tools, Not So Good Tools

>      Speaker: Discussion - come and contribute

>         Date: Thursday, December 20, 2007

>         Time: 11:30a.m. - 1:00p.m.

>     Location: Mary Gates Hall, Room 015L

> 

>    Come join us for a discussion of what tools help us create

>    accessible Web sites, and which make reaching that goal more

>    difficult than it needs to be. This discussion supports

>    work Terry Thompson is doing to create a central UW Web site

>    about accessibility. Here is Terry's query from a message he

>    sent to the Access email list:

> 

>      Does anyone have tools that they utilize in their

>      development work that they feel either support

>      accessibility well, or do NOT support accessibility well?

>      By "tools" I mean literally anything - web authoring

>      tools, content management systems, toolbars, plug-ins,

>      accessibility checkers - We're hoping to put together a

>      fairly comprehensive list.

> 

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