Archive for September, 2009

The Paciello Group and Riverdocs Announce Accessibility Services for Legacy PDF Documents

Nashua, NH – Sep. 28, 2009 – The Paciello Group (TPG), pioneers in the field of accessible interface design, and Riverdocs, a leading document conversion solutions provider, today announced a partnership that will provide the ability to take existing PDF documents and deliver structured, accessible HTML content in conformance with existing governmental guidelines. These guidelines [...]

Apple Webkit Gets Serious About WAI-ARIA (on Mac)

A check of the support for WAI-ARIA roles in the latest Webkit Nightly builds, reveals a major improvement for WAI-ARIA role support on the Mac version of Webkit (an open source web browser engine), but the Windows version shows little progress.

Google Chrome Frame - accessibility black hole

Google have released Chrome Frame a plugin-in for Internet Explorer  “that seamlessly brings Google Chrome’s open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to Internet Explorer.” What it also does is seamlessly bring Google Chrome’s lack of support for assistive technologies to Internet Explorer.