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"I’m happy to share the news that Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 are now available for download from the Adobe web site."

If you are designing, or re-designing your web site, it is time well spent running your website through the color accessibility tools below to ensure that your site can be seen correctly by as many people as possible. For a person with a color disability, the colors used on a web site can mean the difference between being able to read text and images or not. 1 in 12 people have some sort of color deficiency..

"Mind map When writing blog posts, bloggers can improve accessibility in several ways. Too many ways to remember, hence the “Accessibility Checklist for Blog Posts”! This quick reference is available as a downloadable mind map (PDF format – 182 kb) and as a text-based checklist."

"Je souhaitais revenir sur les nouveautés du firmware 4.0 en terme d’accessibilité, lequel s’appelle désormais iOS et sera disponible gratuitement le 21 juin 2010. En effet, iOS en est maintenant au stade Golden Master Release candidate, c’est-à-dire qu’il ne subira probablement plus aucun changement jusqu’à sa mise en ligne au grand public. Voici ce qu’on peut noter quant aux nouveautés concernant l’accessibilité de l’iOS4."

"All screen readers that I know of have keyboard shortcuts that allow the user to navigate within a web page by jumping from heading to heading. This can really speed things up when you want to skip to a particular section of a page."

"Testing a website for accessibility can be a time-consuming and laborious process. The free Web Accessibility Toolbar can do most of the hard work for you though and is an indispensable tool for anyone interested in accessibility. The toolbar is not an automated testing tool so does require manual work from you. It’s therefore able to avoid the many problems with automated accessibility testing tools. It doesn’t require any technical knowledge so even the biggest technophobe can check their website for accessibility!"

"While it may be that, at launch, only people who are technically able and physically able to use the CMS are asked to do so, it is important that the future needs of people be taken into account to ensure that an organisation’s CMS is usable by as broad a base of users as possible."

"I have said on numerous occasions that there is no simple checklist that, when followed, will give you an accessible site without fail. There are simply too many variables. But, what do you do when you want to create accessible pages and you have dozens or even hundreds of developers who (like most of their peers) have little to no experience with accessibility? What do you do when it just simply isn’t practical to have someone review all of your pages?"

"L’étape de la conversion d’un document en format PDF à partir d’un traitement de texte est déterminante pour l’accessibilité du document ainsi converti et permettra ou non d’économiser de nombreux efforts dans la mise en accessibilité complète de ce document avec le progiciel Acrobat."

"This Firefox extension generates an index (or map) of any web document structured with headings."