Hey, thanks Benjamin! Nothing wrong with tooting your own horn. I am finding out that very, very few developers have hands-on accessibility experience like you mentioned. If you didn't get a chance, have a read:
http://blog.reindel.com/2007/08/29/web-site-accessibility-awareness-loses-steam/ It sounds like we had a similar enlightenment :) Brian On Aug 30, 9:55 am, "Benjamin Sterling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great great great plugin! And not just because of its functionality, but > for the accessibility of it. I am glad to see that you stuck to your guns > about keeping it so. My dev team had the priviledge to go to the EPA and to > their compliance testing center where we sat with gentleman that was blind > and got to "hear" how some of the sites we were developing sounded and it > was horrible. I took steps in building a new framework (my company does a > lot of web based training sites) that is compliant and uses jQuery/xml/xhtml > (airplume.informationexperts.com) and hearing it in JAWS sound so much > better. Anyway, I am tooting my own horn here, just wanted to say that I am > with you on taking "accessibility into account." > > Great work! > > On 8/30/07, Giant Jam Sandwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Well, for me that's a good thing, but probably not so much for your > > work :) > > > Thanks for pointing out that bug. I can't believe in all this time I > > never found that. Part of my tests usually is to click a bunch of > > times on stuff like that to see what happens. I will have to take > > another look at it -- it is probably something easy that I missed. > > > Thanks Rey. > > > On Aug 30, 12:29 am, Rey Bango <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > BTW Brian, your blog has sssssoooo much awesome content that its > > > completely distracted me from my work!! :p > > > > ;) > > > > Rey... > > > > Giant Jam Sandwich wrote: > > > > I have made a final adjustment to the Accessible News Slider plugin > > > > for jQuery, and I will no longer be supporting new releases or feature > > > > requests. The primary purpose behind building this plugin was to > > > > demonstrate that dynamic components can be accessible if appropriate > > > > steps are taken. This has been a successful experiment, and I still > > > > get quite a bit of traffic for the plugin. > > > > > Unfortunately, most of the feature requests that I receive do not take > > > > accessibility into account. Many of them are both interesting and > > > > usable, but not necessarily accessible. For this reason I am releasing > > > > the final version completely into the public domain. The plugin has > > > > always been available under the GNU GPL, but you may now use it to > > > > suit any of your project needs. > > > > > You will always find the support page > > athttp://www.reindel.com/accessible_news_slider. > > > > > Enjoy! > > -- > Benjamin Sterlinghttp://www.KenzoMedia.comhttp://www.KenzoHosting.com
