RE: [WSG] just sharing the frustration

2006-02-15 Thread Jon Gunderson
hints on posting to the list getting help ** Jon Gunderson, Ph.D. Director of IT Accessibility Services Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) and Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology

Re: [WSG] Quick Site Check - CSS Problem?

2006-02-21 Thread Jon Gunderson
help ** Jon Gunderson, Ph.D. Director of IT Accessibility Services Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) and Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Disability Resources and Education

Re: [WSG] Breadcrumb as Section Heading H1

2006-02-23 Thread Jon Gunderson
to the list getting help ** Jon Gunderson, Ph.D. Director of IT Accessibility Services Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) and Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Disability Resources

Re: [WSG] Screen reader recommendations???

2006-02-28 Thread Jon Gunderson
??? To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Are there any recommendations for screen readers to test with I'd like to at least 'preview' what our site(s) sound like to such a user. Thanx... Mike Jon Gunderson, Ph.D. Director of IT Accessibility Services Campus Information

RE: [WSG] Screen reader recommendations???

2006-02-28 Thread Jon Gunderson
/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help ** Jon Gunderson, Ph.D. Director of IT Accessibility Services Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) and Coordinator of Assistive Communication

[WSG] Firefox Accessibility Extension 1.0: New features to test dynamically generated web pages for accessibility

2007-03-01 Thread Jon Gunderson
The Firefox Accessibility Extension 1.0 is a free tool which has an important NEW feature to test dynamically generated web resources (client side javascripting to generate html content) for functional web accessibility features. Download a give it a try: http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu New

[WSG] ODF Accessibility Checking and Repair Tool

2007-03-20 Thread Jon Gunderson
Computer Science students at the University of Illinois are working on an web based Open Document Format (ODF) accessibility checking and repair tool for improving the accessibility of ODF documents to people with disabilities. They have just added some repair features and would love your

[WSG] New version of the Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator is available

2007-05-04 Thread Jon Gunderson
New version of the Illinois Functional Accessibility Evaluator available: http://fae.cita.uiuc.eduhttps://ms1.express.cites.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/fetch.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffae.cita.uiuc.edu Sign up for FREE account and test web sites two links deep. Major New Features Include: * The Sitewide

[WSG] Web Accessibility Workshops at the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana

2007-05-08 Thread Jon Gunderson
The following are a series of hands-on workshops related to learning how to create universally accessible web resources to give participants the skill they need to create functionally accessible web resources. 2-Day

Re: [WSG] WCAG conformance and checking

2007-11-08 Thread Jon Gunderson
Simon, Some free tools from the university of Illinois are: Functional Accessibility Evaluator http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu Firefox Accessibility Extension http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu Here is an FAE report on your page and you are doing a GREAT job on accessibility:

Re: [WSG] Review Accessability Of My Site

2008-04-08 Thread Jon Gunderson
Here is a tool that can help identify functional accessibility issues: http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu Jon On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Marvin Hunkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Check out my home page at http://startrekcafe.stevesdomain.net/ Check out my Jaws Australia Group at

Re: [WSG]

2008-04-23 Thread Jon Gunderson
There is also the Illinois Functional Accessibility Validator (FAE) http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu and The Illinois Firefox Accessibility Extension http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu Jon On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Kepler Gelotte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know about a tool that automate

[WSG] HELP: Need a bug fixed in Firefox to support development of open source accessibility testing tools

2008-12-19 Thread Jon Gunderson
There is a feature needed in Firefox to find out which DOM nodes have user interface event handlers. This would allow Firefox Accessibility Extensions and tools like Firebug to test for features needed by people with disabilities to make dynamic web applications more accessible. For example,

Re: [WSG] Accessibility testing

2009-02-16 Thread Jon Gunderson
You can try the Illinois Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator service. It is a free service, no cost to create an account. http://faetest.dres.uiuc.edu This is the Candidate release 1, that hopefully be our production version available later this week. Please let me know what you think of

[WSG] Illinois Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator 1.0 Released!

2009-03-12 Thread Jon Gunderson
The Illinois Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator 1.0 (FAE) has been released with new and updated accessibility rules based on the iCITA Best Practices [1 to help web developers create HTML resources that are usable by people with disabilities. FAE is a free service provided by the University

Re: [WSG] a WCAG 2.0 question

2009-03-12 Thread Jon Gunderson
I think this requirement is a little out dated, screen readers today do a good job of telling people that a new window is open. I think the main concern is window pollution, if links are opening a lot of new windows it can be difficult for people with some types of disabilities to be aware of and

Re: [WSG] Illinois Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator 1.0 Released!

2009-03-13 Thread Jon Gunderson
the only error though. Will use this tool to check through the rest of the site when time's available, Regards Mike Foskett -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Jon Gunderson Sent: 12 March 2009 14:07 To: wsg

Re: [WSG] using skip links

2009-05-13 Thread Jon Gunderson
One idea is the first skip should be skip to title and the second link skip to content. a second ideas is for your second link to be skip over promotion It is not clear to me why there would need to be promotional material between the heading and the content. COuld you send a link of an

Re: [WSG] Accessible Forms

2009-08-19 Thread Jon Gunderson
Here are some best practices examples. The encapsulation method has some side effects that any content in text form controls becomes part of the label, which can be confusing to speech users. http://html.cita.illinois.edu/nav/form Jon On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:04 PM, David