Just listen to your feeds
ReadSpeaker PodCaster is an On-Line service that makes news feeds automatically accessible to more people in a high-quality and cost-effective way.
There are thousands of companies, blogs, government bodies and other organisations trying to make their news and content accessible as a text-based RSS feed. Podcasting and “Pod radio” are technologies where the RSS feed is enriched with a link (called an enclosure) to an mp3 file. This is widely used by radio stations, national and international commercial and non-commercial broadcasting companies, on line news papers, and so on.
Proper Use of ALT and TITLE Attributes
From fadtastic.
It’s important for web designers and developers to know how to write good ALT and TITLE attributes. Practices like these should be employed into each web page element as it’s created.
Alternate text is not meant to be used as a tool tip, or more specifically, to provide additional information about an image. The title attribute, on the other hand, is meant to provide additional information about an element…. Many people seem to confuse these two attributes. - Roger Johansson
As Roger notes, we should be including accessibility features when initially creating web pages rather than going back to add it later.
Miyu - Add Text To Your Videos Easily
Miyu is a free application that lets you add text or subtitles to your videos easily. It features playback with real-time preview, full screen playback, WYSIWYG Typesetting and much more.
Better Connected not connecting
Socitm’s Better Connected 2007 report is now published. Only two sites pass WCAG level AA from a list of 468. At present, I designed and helped implement 16 of these and I am committed to standards and accessibility.
Better Connected is failing to accomplish anything other than paint a gloomy picture of play and upset Local Authority rulers and those of us really making an effort. When does it get positive? Dan Champion is in a similar position to me and the Web Access Blog makes him an example and issues a kind of apology. 466 failures to comply is frankly depressing. But then, it isn’t accurate is it, which is frankly useless.