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Ofir Leitner and I were interviewed recently about the Java mobile accessibility work we presented at JavaOne (and that I just presented again yesterday at the AEGIS Conference in Brussels). That interview appears on The Java Spotlight issue #58. You can listen to Read more: Peter Korn's Weblog

The http://www.facebook.com/Aegis.Accessible page is the place to be the next 3 days when you want to follow live the progress of the AEGIS Conference and Workshop on 28-29-30 November 2011 in Brussels, Belgium.

The event will bring together both end-users (people with disabilities) as well as platform and

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The international conference on disabilities (cerebral palsy and developmental disabilities) takes place in Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh in India) on 8-10 March 2013, a joint meeting between the Indian academy of cerebral palsy, the American academy of cerebral palsy, the World federation of neurorehabilitation and a host of other national and international bodies and with close to 2000 registrations.
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Last October, Nokia announced at their annual Nokia World conference that they are making a FREE Screen Reader for some devices. Not Windows Phones however.

The Screen Reader software is co-developed by long-time Nokia developer Code Factory who are known for their own screen reader ”Mobile Speak”. They actually made an app before it was possible to make a screen reader on Nokia devices called ”Mobile Accessibility”, so it was a natural choice for Nokia to let Code Factory be

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CLOUD4all, the European Commission funded program to develop a cloud-based accessibility architecture, started on 1st of November 2011. The project began with a meeting of the 30 partners and collaborators in Madrid, at Technosite/ONCE. Technosite is a member of the Raising the Floor Consortium and the coordinator for the project.
Raising the Floor – International is the technical coordinator for CLOUD4all. CLOUD4all will be carrying out research on some of the key core

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Opera has recently released a new browser extension: “The Developer Briefcase“.
One of the interesting features of this extension is an accessibility evaluation

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Press release – Leuven, Belgium, 8 November 2011: The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven) today released an extension for OpenOffice.org Writer and LibreOffice Writer that enables users to evaluate and repair accessibility issues in word processing documents. “AccessODF” (http://sourceforge.net/p/accessodf/wiki/) is a freeware extension for OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice, two office

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Many thanks to people for their work on accessibility!

Could someone point to instructions about how to implement the more accessible version of Accordion? Does it work with Drupal jQuery, or does it replace that as well as the Accordion script itself? Or do we just add this as a jQuery script in our jQuery Libraries folder?

And, though it's perhaps off topic, is

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Moments ago, my computer spoke to me: "Oracle Solaris installation is complete. Review the Oracle Solaris installation log for more information." This was followed by "Oracle Solaris installation log button" (telling me that that is the focused button on my screen). Three TAB presses later ("Quit button", "Help button", "Reboot button") and a press of the RETURN key, and my computer rebooted with a brand spanking new accessible installation of Solaris 11, Oracle's latest operating system

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