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Adobe Flex Accessibility Webinar
Hans Hillen from TPG is presenting a Flex Accessibility Webinar in conjunction with Adobe. It will be on Wednesday, July 21st 12:00 noon, US EST, and it’s free to attend.

I have written on the issue of Google Chrome accessibility a number of times since its initial release. Progress is being made, but that progress is too slow for some users of Assistive Technology.  As a consequence a petition has been created by Alex Hiironen to highlight the issue that users of Assitive Technology such as screen [...]

Will HTML5 make the use of WAI-ARIA in HTML redundant? the short answer is definitley not. There are many ARIA roles and properties that are not provided by native elements and attributes in HTML5.  Also developers still  have the desire to roll their own interactive controls  even though they have been available in HTML as [...]

The Paciello Group (TPG) has been selected by AOL to enhance the accessibility of jQuery, a popular open source toolkit used to build dynamic web applications. This work will foster greater compatibility between consumer-facing web applications and assistive technology used by people with disabilities to access the Internet.

I thought I’d clear up any potential confusion over the recent rumor that the revised version of the Section 508 and Section 255 guidelines would be published for public comment in March.
Last night I confirmed with the US Access Board that the version of the guidelines to be released in March are an “Advance Notice [...]