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		<title>Web Accessibility for Cognitive Disabilities and Learning Difficulties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ian Pouncey · 4 Aug, 2010 Introduction Web accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties is one of the most overlooked subtopics of general web accessibility, despite it affecting the largest numbers. A large part of it is that there are so many conditions to understand in this area (far more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ADA and the Web: Concerns and Misconceptions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ADA and the Web: Concerns and Misconceptions July 30, 2010 by Jared Smith WebAIM is often approached by individuals and organizations concerned about “ADA compliance” of their web site. This is a bit of a misnomer. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 pre-dates and does not address web accessibility at all. That may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accept No Substitutes!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Geof Collis Bad Eyes Design &#38; Consulting For the longest time I&#8217;ve was advocating against the Portable Document Format (PDF), none of them were accessible to my screen reader so I&#8221;Settled&#8221; for plain text, to me it was the lesser of evils. At no time did I ever care for the Microsoft Word format, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Problems With Using Website Validation Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[June 7th, 2010 by Alexander Dawson &#124; Amongst the basic skills that fledgling designers and developers should know is the art of website validation. Website validation consists of using a series of tools such as W3C’s Markup Validation Service that can actively seek out and explain the problems and inconsistencies within our work. While the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Make the Web Accessible to Everyone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Carrie Saint Freedman Thursday 27 May 2010 16:14 Despite a range of legislation and best practice advice, cyberspace is still far from equitable for those of us &#8220;non-standard&#8221; enough to be using adaptive or assistive technology. There is plenty of guidance available, from legislation such as the Disability Discrimination Act and the Disability Equality Duty, specific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kill Accessibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May 20 2010By Gary Barber Let’s get some reality on the web accessibility debate. We all know about WCAG 1, we have all at least had a look at the associated checklists.  If you are lucky you may have glanced at WCAG 2. We all have been developing and designing our sites with semantic content, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Accessibility: Text-only Versions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Posted to Site May 17, 2010 Introduction One of the myths of web accessibility is that people with disabilities benefit from text-only versions. The truth is that practically nobody with a disability benefits in any way from a text-only version at all. Text-only versions may be of some benefit to people with slow Internet connections, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Eyes Sees the PDF Light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Geof Collis May 11, 2010 Ok, you win!! I&#8217;ve been converted!! I&#8217;ve been advocating for years the need for providing an alternate document along with the Portable Document Format (PDF) because all I ever received was an inaccessible PDF. I asked nicely over and over again. I tried real hard to be patient. When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Document Accessibility Should Begin at the Author Level</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apr 9, 2010, By Deborah Kaplan and Monir ElRayes The ability to access and process electronic information has become one of the most important factors in leading a full and productive life in today&#8217;s knowledge-based society. This makes access to electronic information critical for people with disabilities who are seeking employment and other opportunities. Significant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Alt and Title Attributes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When browser vendors bend the standards and implement something in a different way than what the specification states, they may cause problems, or at least confusion. One example of this is the way certain browsers, the most widely used being Internet Explorer for Windows, handle alt attributes (popularly and incorrectly referred to as “alt tags”). [...]]]></description>
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