FAQs for ICT Accessiblity Regulation
The IT Accessibility Committee, in conjunction with the Office of Information Technology and the Office of General Counsel, has released a set of frequently asked questions for the revised Information...
View ArticleGoogle Apps Accessibility Guidelines
Google Apps are increasingly being used on campus in a multitude of ways, from academics to staff meetings. Because of the ease of publishing content from Google Apps to the Web and sharing it with...
View ArticleGetting My Google Doc in a More Accessible Format
For some assistive technology users, Google Docs still has significant hurdles that prevent them from fully using the product. Often the user just wants the document in a more accessible format, like a...
View ArticleDownload Google Doc as Microsoft Office Document Tool Updated
The Download Google Doc as Microsoft Office Document Tool has been updated to handle a couple of problems. The script is now delivered via SSL. Previously the script was served from a non-SSL server....
View ArticleTesting Web Page Readability
I’ve developed a readability bookmarklet that lets you easily analyze a Web page or a portion of a Web page to see how readable the text is. This tool is available to anyone in the world, not just NC...
View ArticleNC State Global Accessibility Awareness Day Website Challenge
Are you ready to put your website up to the challenge? Over the next two weeks, ending on May 9, one way NC State will be celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day is by having NC State’s First...
View Article2013 Global Accessibility Awareness Day Challenge Results
Congratulations to all of the Web site owners who participated in NC State’s First Annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day Challenge! As a group we corrected 194,232 accessibility errors across many...
View ArticleAccessible Video.js Player Available on Global Accessibility Awareness Day
Video.js is an HTML5 video player that makes embedding video in HTML5 pages very easy and gives you a consistent look-and-feel across browsers. Video.js will use the browser’s built-in ability to play...
View ArticleA New Look-And-Feel
I’ve updated the blog with a new template. It’s one that we use on campus on several sites. I like this one better than my old one, and this way any accessibility work I do on it will also be …...
View ArticleHow to Use Video.js – The Big Picture
This is a high-level overview of how to use Video.js to display your videos in HTML5 pages. This assumes you know some basics about video. Using Video.js is a three step process. Creating the video in...
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The Gamification of Accessibility, Round 1: Lessons Learned
NC State held it’s first ever Global Accessibility Awareness Day Challenge to see which campus Web sites could correct the largest number of accessibility errors. The challenge was based upon automated...
View ArticleScreen Readers at a Crossroads
I believe screen reading software stands at a crossroads right now. At Google I/O 2013, Google showed some of the possibilities of the ChromeVox API. What they demonstrated showed some fundamental...
View ArticleNC State Web Accessibility Challenge on World Usability Day
NC State University’s Office of IT Accessibility is sponsoring a Web Site Accessibility Challenge in conjunction with World Usability Day. World Usability Day brings people together “to ensure that the...
View Article2013 NC State World Usability Day Website Challenge Results
Congratulations to all of the NC State Website owners who participated in NC State’s 2013 World Usability Day Website Challenge. NC State users can view the detailed results of the challenge. Website...
View ArticleIncredible Accessible Modal Window, Version 2
Just take me to the demo of the Incredible Accessible Modal Window, Version 2. Rich Caloggero at MIT and I were talking recently about screen reader support in the original Incredible Accessible Modal...
View Article2014 NC State Global Accessibility Awareness Day Website Challenge
The University IT Accessibility Office is once again sponsoring the NC State Global Accessibility Awareness Day Website Challenge to encourage campus website owners and designers to make accessibility...
View ArticleWinners of the 2014 NC State Global Accessibility Awareness Day Website...
Congratulations to all of the developers who participated in the 2014 NC State Global Accessibility Awareness Day Website Challenge. Together we corrected 905,082 accessibility errors! For each of the...
View ArticleColor Contrast Analyzer for Chrome – Download Feature
I just updated the Color Contrast Analyzer for Chrome with a new feature that lets you download the resulting image analysis as a PNG file. The file name will include the WCAG conformance level and the...
View ArticleA New Look-And-Feel
I’ve updated the blog with a new template. It’s one that we use on campus on several sites. I like this one better than my old one, and this way any accessibility work I do on it will also be …...
View ArticleHow to Use Video.js – The Big Picture
This is a high-level overview of how to use Video.js to display your videos in HTML5 pages. This assumes you know some basics about video. Using Video.js is a three step process. Creating the video in...
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