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		<title>Court Orders Canadian Government to Make Sites Accessible</title>
		<link>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2010/12/02/court-orders-canadian-government-to-make-sites-accessible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Canadian federal government has been ordered to make its websites accessible to visually impaired users. On November 29 2010, Federal Court Justice, Michael Kelen, gave the government 15 months to update its websites after a blind Toronto woman said she was unable to apply for a public service job online. Donna Jodhan, a special-needs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YouTube Adds Captions</title>
		<link>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2010/03/10/youtube-adds-captions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Widow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All YouTube videos can now include captions created by speech recognition software. YouTube has been trialling automatic captioning since last November and recently announced the extension of the feature to all videos. &#8220;Auto-captioning combines some of the speech-to-text algorithms found in Google&#8217;s Voice Search to automatically generate video captions when requested by a viewer,&#8221; said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WCAG 2.0 in Switzerland</title>
		<link>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2010/03/09/wcag-2-0-in-switzerland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Widow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 26 January 2010, the Federal IT Council (FITC) in Switzerland accepted the changes to P028 Version 2.0 with unanimous consent. As a result of these changes, existing federal websites must meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA by 31 December 2010. New federal websites must meet this conformance level immediately. Standard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joe is Back!</title>
		<link>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2010/03/03/joes-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Widow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Clark supposedly left the web accessibility sector a while back to concentrate on the Open &#038; Closed Project, But it seems he&#8217;s finding the accessibility bug hard to shake off. More recently, he turned his attention to Vancouver2010.com and CTVolympics. After all, there&#8217;s something of history where web accessibility and Olympic web sites are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>W3C Universal Validator</title>
		<link>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2009/10/09/w3c-universal-validator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Widow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The goal of the Unicorn Project is to create a universal validator that will be able to validate and check multiple quality aspects of a document through a single Web interface. Unicorn As well as developing Web Standards, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) also provides online tools and services to check that content published [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CVS.com To Meet Web Accessibility Standards</title>
		<link>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2009/08/10/cvs-com-to-meet-web-accessibility-standards/</link>
		<comments>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2009/08/10/cvs-com-to-meet-web-accessibility-standards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Widow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CVS/pharmacy, the United State&#8217;s largest retail pharmacy, recently announced that it will enhance web accessibility on its site. The announcement is the result of a collaboration between CVS/pharmacy, the American Foundation for the Blind, American Council of the Blind and California Council of the Blind. CVS/pharmacy’ has committed to ensure that its online pharmacy, www.cvs.com, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staples Web Site Access</title>
		<link>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2009/05/11/staples-web-site-access/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 10:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Widow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Staples, the world&#8217;s largest office products company, recently announced that it will make its web site accessible to people with disabilities. The company has also agreed to install tactile keypads at its point of sale devices so that people who have difficulty reading information on a touchscreen do not have to disclose their PIN and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Law School Site Sued Over Web Access Issues</title>
		<link>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2009/02/23/law-school-site-sued-over-web-access-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Widow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US National Federation of the Blind; its California affiliate; and a blind law school applicant, Deepa Goraya, filed a lawsuit on February 1st 2009 against the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC). The complaint asserts that the LSAC, the body that administers the Law School Admissions Test (which most aspiring law students must take) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WCAG 2.0 Released</title>
		<link>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2008/12/12/wcag-20-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Widow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 were finally published yesterday and are officially described as applying to &#8220;more advanced technologies&#8220;. The new guidelines are also supposed to be easier to use and understand (although I&#8217;d advise you keep paracetamol and plenty of coffee to hand) and are designed to be more precisely testable via [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Implementing WCAG 2.0</title>
		<link>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2008/11/17/implementing-wcag-20/</link>
		<comments>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2008/11/17/implementing-wcag-20/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Widow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Cherim has recently published an article on implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.0 based on his experience of developing a AAA web site &#8212; 1 of only 2 AAA sites currently acknowledged by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). His advice and personal approach to future development pretty much confirms the same points [...]]]></description>
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