In Firefox and OS X’s VoiceOver … Reading the Magic 8 Ball Aaron Leventhal details the barriers faced in getting the Firefox browser to work with VoiceOver (Apples built in screen reader).
I for one have been waiting to hear this news. One of the big 2 commercial screen readers will now support WAI-ARIA live regions. Let’s hope that this prompts GWMicro to add support in Window-Eyes. The JAWS version 10 public beta is scheduled for release during the week of August 24, 2008!
Jon Gibbons (AKA dotjay) has started to put togther a list of links to video resources on the subject of assistive technology. It include useful descriptions for each resource. Nice work Jon!
Lisa Herrod writes about deaf issues. Deafness and the User Experience explores some of the misconceptions about deafness. She also discusses the concept of Little “d†deaf and big “D†Deaf: an important distinction - one that the Deaf community makes regularly.
Martin Kliehm has proposed a panel for South by Southwest (SXSW) held March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas. : ‘Hands-On Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)’ .