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01 September 2006

Calling all Assistive Technology vendors

WaSP issues an open invitation to work with Assistive Technology vendors to help ensure greater support for standards-based web development techniques in software that enables access for millions of people worldwide.
http://www.webstandards.org/

Pragmatic Accessibility

Results from an event called 'Geek in the Park'
http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/

60 hot to touch Accessible Web Design tips – the tips no web developer can live without!

It takes a different approach to the standard big and heavy web technique tomes - this one offers light bytes for easy digestion. It contains 60 easy to understand, practical tips you can put to good use when developing your next website.
http://www.lulu.com/

International Day of Disabled Persons 2006 - E-Accessibility

The theme for this year’s International Day of Disabled Persons (3 December 2006) is accessibility to information technologies, and the day will be referred to as E-Accessibility Day.
http://www.un.org/

Turning visitors into users

Thousands of people may be visiting your site every day, but if you don’t convince them that they should be using your product, subscribing to your service, or registering in some way, then your web app’s homepage is simply not doing its job.
http://www.thinkvitamin.com/

cookies and WCAG checkpoint 6.3

A discussion thread in response to a question about whether the use of cookies makes a website fail the checkpoint 6.3.
http://www.accessifyforum.com/

Friday fun:

HOWTO make a glowing pickle-lamp

You can make a glowing pickle-lamp by jamming power-boards into either end of a pickle that's resting atop a non-conducting surface and then plugging it in.
http://www.darylscience.com/

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