Email - for when it absolutely, positively, has to get lost at the speed of light.
Seasons WordPress Theme
A seasonal theme with colours and background images that will automatically change according to the season of the year.
An Administration sub-panel is provided to allow a single colour theme to be permanently displayed – over-riding the automatic theme changes.
Purple Pastels WordPress Theme
A WordPress theme with additional accessibility features and semi-intelligent attachment scripts. Customised threaded comments function included. Backwards compatibility preserved for WordPress 2.6x.
Scrapbook WordPress Theme
A graphic-intensive WordPress theme suitable for WordPress 2.5+
The theme includes customised attachment and image templates. Subtle sticky post highlighting and a custom callback for threaded comments are included for WordPress 2.7 whilst comment compatibility is preserved for WordPress 2.6 or earlier.
Purple Pastels Theme
An accessible WordPress version 2.7 compatible theme with semi-intelligent image & attachment scripts. Customised threaded comments for WordPress 2.7. Backwards compatibility preserved for WordPress 2.6x.
Compatible with WordPress 2.5+
Implementing WCAG 2.0
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 — 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 that I was reaching with regard to WCAG 2.0. Having intitially staggered away from the draft documents with head reeling and a feeling of “How on earth am I going to work within this?
“, I’ve since taken a step back and decided that, since Real World access issues are not going to be affected by a change of guideline from version 1 to version 2, neither should my overall approach — which is to continue doing the best job I can.
WebVisum
WebVisum is a new Firefox extension that greatly enhances web accessibility and empowers the blind and visually impaired community by putting the control in their hands.
Features include:
- Community driven tagging and page enhancements.
- CAPTCHA support, sign up to web sites and make forum posts and blog comments without asking for help!
- Built in helper functions for easier page navigation and less confusion.
- Numerous under the hood page tweaks designed to help screen reader users.
- High contrast page option
- Link and focus highlighting
The extension’s developers recommend the following for screen reader users:
- JAWS 8 or later.
- Window-Eyes beta 7 or later
The free and open source NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) screen reader0.6p1 or later.
Currently, the extension is only available for Firefox 3 running on Windows but the WebVisum team hope to develop a version for the Mac that will work with VoiceOver, the built in Mac screen reader, in the future.
To use the extension, first create a WebVisum account and then install the extension.