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YouTube Adds Captions
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. “Auto-captioning combines some of the speech-to-text algorithms found in Google’s Voice Search to automatically generate video captions when requested by a viewer,” said [...]
WCAG 2.0 in Switzerland
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 [...]
Joe is Back!
Joe Clark supposedly left the web accessibility sector a while back to concentrate on the Open & Closed Project, But it seems he’s finding the accessibility bug hard to shake off. More recently, he turned his attention to Vancouver2010.com and CTVolympics. After all, there’s something of history where web accessibility and Olympic web sites are [...]
WordPress Forum Thank You
Most of the time, I actively enjoy doing a little part-time work in the WordPress support forum. Not only is it a great resource for hunting down tips, tricks & workarounds, but getting involved in threads, or problem-solving issues, is a good way to learn and keep on top of new core developments or issues. [...]
W3C Universal Validator
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 [...]
CVS.com To Meet Web Accessibility Standards
CVS/pharmacy, the United State’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, [...]