MetaFilter posts tagged with accessibility

The Free Site Validator

sciurus — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:13:23 -0800

The Free Site Validator is for all y'all web designers who are tired of putting each and every page through the W3C Markup Validation Service. Enter the URL you'd like checked, start the report and you'll soon have every page of the site examined for valid markup and link rot. It also uses OpenID so you might already have an account! [via 456 Berea Street] The site runs a bit slow at the moment due to heavy traffic.

ADA-Compliant Pornography

basicchannel — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:09:01 -0800

Porn for the Blind is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to producing audio descriptions of sample movie clips from adult web sites. This service is provided free of charge. [NSFW]

Web Accessibility Linkdump

sciurus — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:27:59 -0800

Web Sites Accessible for Everyone is a fairly comprehensive site, offering a variety of resources for anyone interested in website accessibility. I've found the AJAX and Accessibility section particularly interesting. Thank you University of Washington.

Google Video, now with captioning

joeclark — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:42:05 -0800

Selected videos with closed captioning Self-uploaded videos aren’t just for hearing people anymore. A small number of videos on Google now have captioning. You can create your own caption files, albeit laboriously.

Suck me up, Scotty!

ontic — Sun, 01 May 2005 14:56:48 -0800

Introducing Residential Pneumatic Vacuum Elevators

Pick a key - any key, just not the 'any' key

Sparx — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:19:44 -0800

One key games. Retro Remakes, a reverse-engineer gaming siteand One Switch, an accessibility site, have launched a competition for the best game that can be played with a single key. There's still time to enter, and some entries have already been posted to the forums.

Access & Accessibility

nthdegx — Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:56:52 -0800

As of October next year, the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 comes into effect in the UK. Under this act, a disabled person may have rights to sue a service-providing company if they have difficulty accessing their website just as they might if they had difficulty accessing their headquarters. The Royal National Institute of the Blind website includes a "web access centre", which takes a good look at the issue of accessibility and provides sound advice to web designers whether they are legally obligated to tackle such issues or not.

Keyless Keyboard

Orange Goblin — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:50:39 -0800

A keyless keyboard designed to reduce RSI and other typing related injuries - sounds interesting, but slow, and of course useless for gaming. Bit pricey as well.

The Right to Flash Petition

hobbes — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 09:52:22 -0800

The Right to Flash is an online petition for Macromedia to properly support Arabic and Hebrew languages which read from right-to-left.

Cynthia Says

riffola — Tue, 18 Mar 2003 23:17:42 -0800

Cynthia Says™ is a web content accessibility validation solution, it is designed to identify errors in design related to Section 508 standards and the WCAG guidelines. The main purpose of this portal is to educate web site developers in the development Web Based content that is accessible to all. Cynthia runs more tests than Bobby and is free. I think the site itself fails the accessiblity test, 'cause it doesn't have "WCAG" in an <abbr> tag, nonetheless it's a good tool. [via zeldman].

agaffin — Tue, 08 Oct 2002 14:41:24 -0800

The MBTA, Boston's transit system, launched a redesigned Web site today. Fairly unremarkable, if you ask me, except that every single page features a prominent "Bobby Approved logo, which is supposed to mean the site is fully accessible to the visually impaired. In fact, it isn't, which you'll find out if you run a Bobby report on the site.

WolfDaddy — Mon, 08 Jul 2002 14:39:49 -0800

''Tim,'' said Spitzer with a laugh, ''just slaughtered them.'' What's so special about one geek slaughtering other geeks in a game of Quake? Tim is blind and a company named ZForm is developing videogames to help blind people compete fairly with sighted people. Way cool.

mikewas — Tue, 25 Jun 2002 21:00:06 -0800

30 days to a more accessible website This series is entitled "30 days to a more accessible weblog", and it will answer two questions. The first question is "Why should I make my weblog more accessible?" If you do not have a weblog, this series is not for you. The second question is "How can I make my weblog more accessible?" If you are not convinced by the first answer, you will not be interested in the second.

milhous — Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:14:22 -0800

Do you see what i see. Anyone work on web projects funded by the Department of Education, or any other organization which is now requiring websites be Bobby Approved?