It was typical for programmers to shorten 'The Year 2000 Problem' to 'Y2K'. It was exactly this kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.
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Apple’s iTunes and their related service, iTunes U, will be improved to allow for their use by the blind after a settlement between Apple, the National Federation of the Blind and the Massachusetts’ Attorney General. As part of the settlement, Apple has agreed to make the services compatible with screen reader and braille software.
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The Target Corporation have agreed to a $6 million settlement of the lawsuit filed against them by the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) regarding the inaccessibility of Target.com.
The original complaint, filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), cited various problems with Target.com - images that lacked alternative text; missing page headings and site facilities that could not be used by non-sighted keyboard navigators.
As part of the settlement, Target have agreed to:
There are quite few “Top 10 Tips” around but I don’t seem to be able to get my favourite accessible design tips below 13. So here, for a change, is a baker’s dozen of tips to keep in mind when creating an accessible site or page.
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group announced the publication of WCAG 2.0 as a W3C Candidate Recommendation on 30th April. WCAG 2.0 is part of a series of accessibility guidelines and techniques developed by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). The document explains how to make Web sites, applications, and other content accessible to people with disabilities, and many elderly users.