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Are we entering a Post-Guideline Age for web accessibility? It's an interesting new argument being made in the article Web Accessibility. Life In the Post-Guideline Age from the E-Access blog. I believe there is a good case for this: Too many different guidelines and laws; Too many different technologies are being developed; Just because a site passes web accessibility, doesn't necessarily mean it's usable (this is what the article focuses on) [...]

The University of Colorado-Boulder is hosting the 11th Annual Accessing Higher Ground Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference, November 11- 14, 2008. The main topics include:

• implementation and benefits of Assistive Technology in the university and college setting
• legal and policy issues, including ADA and 508 compliance
• campus media and information resources, including Web pages, accessible

As you may know, Acrobat 9 has recently been released. Fortunately for all, making PDFs accessible is even easier than ever. There's some good information on the Acrobat 9 accessibility FAQ page, and many accessibility features are explained. Here are the highlights...

In the blog post Web Accessibility - The Power of Five, E-Access Bulletin Live reports on a web accessibility study completed by the Society of IT Management (Socitm). The study cites the five most common web accessibility errors, which reportedly make up 76% of all website accessibility failures.

In his article Writing for Accessibility, Joe Dolson explains that accessible copy is more than making non-textual elements available, it's also about the main content! He continues to explain how tone and puncuation are very sensitive and important issues when writing for accessibility.

Today the WCAG 2.0 has been advanced to Candidate Recommendation status. This is a big step in the long W3C guideline development process. What this means is that most people agree on the technical aspects of the much needed update to WCAG 1.0, and we can start using WCAG 2.0 as a guideline as it's "Ready to Test-Drive".

In his article 508 and Higher Ed., Jon Whiting at WebAIM has blogged about his findings on college web sites meeting (or not meeting) Section 508 requirements. It's pretty sad how even college web sites, in the most part, do not meet even the most basic web accessibility requirements of Section 508. Jon states:

only three of the one-hundred pages complied with Section 508