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<div>You might like to include a demo of aDesigner <font color="#800080">(</font><a href="http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/adesigner">http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/adesigner</a>) on the 'good' and 'bad' versions of the sites
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<div>It shows what your pages look like for different types of clolour blindness, visual impairments and older eyes.</div>
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<div>It also times how long it would take a screen reader user to navigate around the page</div>
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<div>It may be useful for people to understand why accessibility is important and give them an understanding using a simulation of what having that impairment is like</div>
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<div>Vivienne<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 23/02/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joshue O Connor</b> <<a href="mailto:joshue.oconnor@ncbi.ie">joshue.oconnor@ncbi.ie</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hey Barry,<br><br>Thats a killer list of extensions for Firefox!!<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Josh<br><br>Barry McMullin wrote:
<br>><br>> On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Hugh O'Neill wrote:<br>><br>><br>>>We can also use the badly designed version to demonstrate how<br>>>the Web Accessibility Toolbar could be used, as Donal proposed,
<br>>>alongside a demonstration of JAWS reading our flawed and fixed<br>>>websites. I think we need to include magnification software as<br>>>well, for demonstration, and also switch / keyboard access.<br>
>>Any other thoughts on approach?<br>><br>><br>> For what it's worth, WAI Education and Outreach Group is<br>> currently developing precisely this kind of "before" and "after"<br>> demo. It is only in early draft form, with lots of dangling
<br>> placeholders, but may help with some ideas:<br>><br>> <<a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/2005/Demo/">http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/2005/Demo/</a>><br>><br>> On a separate point, as Elaine has noted, the AIS toolbar is very
<br>> useful as far as it goes; but has a significant drawback in<br>> (currently) being limited to Microsoft Internet Explorer only. Of<br>> course, IE is still far and away the world's favourite browser -<br>> but hardly first choice from a standards conformance point of
<br>> view...<br>><br>> As Eamon just noted, firefox has alternative strengths of its<br>> own. Right out of the box we have easy magnification (up and<br>> down), easy to switch off image animations (death to all
<br>> flickering ads ... unless they are in flash - but see below!),<br>> tabbed browsing, and user control of new window/tab opening.<br>><br>> And once you have firefox, you can then pick from a long menu of
<br>> handy extensions:<br>><br>> Web Developer:<br>> <<a href="http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/">http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/</a>><br>><br>> Accessibility Extensions for Mozilla/Firefox:
<br>> <<a href="http://cita.disability.uiuc.edu/software/mozilla/">http://cita.disability.uiuc.edu/software/mozilla/</a>><br>><br>> Document Map (finally get a table of contents from all those<br>> header elements):
<br>> <<a href="http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jgraham/">http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jgraham/</a>><br>><br>> Longdesc (context menu to access long image "descriptions");<br>> <<a href="http://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/55/">
http://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/55/</a>><br>><br>> Link Toolbar (finally get some benefit from those LINK elements!):<br>> <<a href="http://cdn.mozdev.org/linkToolbar/">http://cdn.mozdev.org/linkToolbar/
</a>><br>><br>> Flashblock (see how your site looks when users rebel and switch<br>> off all those irritating flash things):<br>> <<a href="http://flashblock.mozdev.org/">http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
</a>><br>><br>> NoScript (easily control where client side scripting is allowed<br>> and where it isn't - what IT security manager doesn't<br>> want to deploy this?):<br>> <<a href="http://www.noscript.net/whats">
http://www.noscript.net/whats</a>><br>><br>> LiveHTTPheaders (technies only, but see content negotiation in action!):<br>> <<a href="http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/">http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/</a>
><br>><br>> DOM Inpector (technies only!):<br>> <<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/inspector/">http://www.mozilla.org/projects/inspector/</a>><br>><br>><br>> (So *why* did we have to wait so long for a really *extensible*
<br>> browser?)<br>><br>> Best - Barry.<br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Irl-dean mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Irl-dean@list.eeng.dcu.ie">Irl-dean@list.eeng.dcu.ie
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