Alternative content for video and audio may include: described video,text video description, extended video descriptions, clean audio, content navigation by content structure, captioning, enhanced captions/subtitles, sign translation and transcripts. Also covers system-level requirements for users with a disability.

Highlights of global Internet usage from 2010.

Ros Hodgekiss on how major desktop and web based e-mail clients handle alt text for images.

From the site: Fluid builds user interfaces, designs commonly used interactions, teaches others how to build good user-centred designs, and works with other software projects to integrate our solutions into their applications. Fluid is a project of the Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University, funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

List of references to higher ed web policies, guides, service pages and accessibility statements.

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Shelley Powers’ thoughts on the proposed hidden attribute in HTML5.

Leslie Jensen-Inman on building accessible sites based on color schemes.

Overview of accessibility maps by Jim Craner.

Everett Zufelt on accessibility problems with JavaScript modal windows. Presents a worked example using jQuery modals in JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver, and provides good analysis and recommendations.

Data shows that about one third of US homes lack broadband Internet access.

The right way to hide elements from sighted users but make them accessible to screen readers.

Resource for making color blind accessible sites.

Peter Krantz on how speaking browsers voice separator characters in web page title elements.

Roger Johansson on best practices for hiding elements using stylesheets.

Roger Johansson on what to do with skip links.

Brian DeMarzo notes a maddening and long-standing Firefox bug, along with a workaround. We found this still affects the latest versions of FF on Mac and PC (3.5.2 at time of writing).

Zeldman on the “humanism” of the original CSS 1 specification, and the importance of finding a practical middle ground between simplicity and technical capability when constructing web standards.

Kimberly Blessing’s approach to semantic progress labels on checkout pages.

James Edwards’ updated (version 3.0) script for adding accessible, animated drag-and-drop behaviours to HTML elements.

WebAIM has made a checklist of WCAG 2.0 recommendations. It’s a quick intro to WCAG 2.0 with an emphasis on the concise and the practical.

Roger Johansson points to an article on configuring your machine for screen reader usability testing.

Drew McLellan recognises the difficulty of developing accessible web applications, and calls on 280North, makers of the remarkable Cappuccino framework to consider accessibility now so that it can be implemented in a systematic way by those building applications.

Roger Johansson on WAI-ARIA 1.0 which is now in last call working draft stage. He's urging those with an interest in it to read the draft and comment publicly by March 24, 2009.

Henny Swan asks for ideas from the web community on data Opera's MAMA (Metadata Analysis and Mining Application) can look for in it's next sweep of the web.

Roger Johansson reporting on screen reader usage data from a recent survey, including the interesting fact that 76% of users update their screen reader within 12 months of a new release. Cool.

David Robinson on why government should expose published data in accessible, machine readable form, using open standards.