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04 December 2006

News:

Google Aids Visually Impaired Searching

Google enhances features of its search engine to accommodate visually impaired user queries.
http://www.webpronews.com/

Remote assessment to help disabled IT users

People who face difficulties using computers are set to benefit from a free remote assessment service from IT charity Abilitynet.
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/computeractive/news/2169310

Windows Vista is released

For business customers only at this stage. The new version of Office seems to have been snuck out at the same time as well.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/

MP says 2007 is 'make or break' for digital inclusion

Talking at the AbilityNet launch of our new remote assessment service, Derek Wyatt MP has said that 'next year will be a turning point in the debate on digital inclusion - and there's no guarantee it will be for the better'.
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/computeractive/news/2169337

Michelle Hinn campaigns for more accessibility for disabled gamers

Hinn campaigns for developers to think about captioning games, allowing controllers to be remapped, offering easier modes of play, better manuals - and to rethink the kind of titles they make.
http://www.brandonsun.com/

AltFormat.com

Sir Steve Redgrave [last week] launched the new AltFormat.com website by raising awareness of the legal rights of dyslexic and visually impaired students to receive their learning materials in their preferred alternative format.
http://www.altformat.com/

M&S tops High Street web ranking

Webcredible reviews the retail sector sites
http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Transcending CSS

Malarkey wrote a book. It got published last week.
http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/

Articles:

Article on cognitive difficulties

AbilityNet begins a series of (3) articles on designing web pages for people with a disability. First up is 'Understanding cognitive difficulties when designing a website'.
http://www.abilitynet.co.uk/

Showing Web Accessibility Statements the Door

A fairly controversial article about how accessibility statements are currently being used, and whether we should have them at all. References and brings in to question the advice given in the PAS78.
http://www.usabilitynews.com/

Latest Alertbox from Jakob Nielson - Digital Divide: The Three Stages

He talks about the Economic, Usability and Empowerment divides in computer usage. One interesting point he makes in the Usability Divide section is about Literacy skills. He writes, 'almost 40% of the population has lower literacy skills, and yet few websites follow the guidelines for writing for low-literacy users.'
http://www.useit.com/

Inserting HTML page into another HTML page

Or alternatively – how to have a frame without using Frames!
http://www.aplus.co.yu/

Fun..

Microsoft unleashes improved Firefox

The open source community is in a state of shock this morning at the news that Microsoft has released a version of popular browser Firefox.
http://www.msfirefox.com

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