The new Accessibility website, put together by Steven Faulkner, Technical Director for Web Accessibility at The Paciello Group, provides information about HTML5 accessibility supported in Chrome 6, Firefox 4, Internet Explorer 9, Opera 10.62 and Safari 5. It also includes example workarounds for when a web browser doesn’t support new HTML5 features.
In line with the move to expand its work in access, Media Access Australia embraces online social media, with a particular focus on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
With last week's launch of the Classroom Access Project, Media Access Australia took to the net to display some short captioned and audio described videos about the project.
Media Access Australia is increasingly using social media to reach more people and encourage them to think about accessibility.
The research study was commissioned by Ofcom’s Advisory Committee on Older and Disabled People, and looks at the effects that Next Generation Services can bring to older and disabled people and their access to information online.
First, the new version of the browser remains fast. IE9 works differently to other web browsers in that it makes better use of the graphics card and Windows features to speed up image download times, and on most computers it succeeds. This test was done on a basic Asus Eee PC running Windows 7. There was a substantial performance increase, making IE9 more competitive against browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
