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Earlier this week CNET began providing closed-captioning for the online video offerings. This is great for web accessibility, and needed with the rise of web video. As far as I know they’re the first large outfit to provide captioning. It’s about time, the need to “provide a text equivalent for every non-text element” is Section 1.1 of the W3C’sWCAG 1.0 specs (published in May of 1999) and retains that prominence in WCAG 2.0 (which issued its second Last Call Working Draft on 11 December 2007).

The day will come when all online video is captioned, and I’m proud of good ol’ CNET for leading the pack.

I’ll keep this short: I’m looking for a few top-notch front-end engineers / web developers for some interesting and challenging projects. If you think that’s you, please drop me a note at nate at koechley dot com.

I’m scheduled to present two sessions at the upcoming Webinale conference in Singapore on April 23rd and 24th.

More details soon, but wanted to give you advance notice.

The Protocols and Formats Working Group has published updated Working Drafts of WAI-ARIA Roadmap, Roles, and States and Properties. The suite describes accessibility of rich Web content using interactive technologies such as AJAX and DHTML. These concepts are further introduced in the WAI-ARIA Overview. The PFWG charter has been updated to allow the group to publish Recommendation-track documents. Accordingly, WAI-ARIA Roles and States and Properties are now intended to become W3C Recommendations; the Roadmap remains a draft Working Group Note. Visit the WAI PFWG home page.

• http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-aria-roadmap-20061220/
• http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-aria-role-20061220/
• http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-aria-state-20061220/
• http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/

Note that there is a new WAI ARIA introduction and overview document, and that comments are welcome until 19 January 2006.

I’m back in my suite at Ceasar’s in Vegas, having just finished presenting my third of three talks at the Web Builder 2.0 conference. Yesterday I presented two talks: my Accessible DHTML talk, and my Yahoo! vs. Yahoo! DHTML Case Studies talk. Today I presented a new talk titled Inside the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library. All three seemed well received, and it was an honor to have a packed room for each. I met lots of great people, and am looking forward to following up with all the new people I met. (Please drop me a note if I didn’t get your email address!)

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            <h4>The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library</h4>
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            <p>This talk was in four parts: Why we build it; What we built; Why we gave it away; Why you might like using it.</p>
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                <li class="pdf"><a href="http://nate.koechley.com/talks/2006/12/webbuilder/YUI/the_yui_library.pdf">PDF of the slides (1.9mb, .pdf)</a></li>
                <li class="zip"><a href="http://nate.koechley.com/talks/2006/12/webbuilder/YUI.zip">Zip of the PowerPoint file and all the assets (8.3mb, .zip)</a></li>
                <li class="ppt"><a href="http://nate.koechley.com/talks/2006/12/webbuilder/YUI/the_yui_library.ppt">The PowerPoint file itself (6.0mb, .ppt)</a></li>
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            <p>What are some techniques for making modern web interfaces accessible?</p>
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                <li class="pdf"><a href="http://nate.koechley.com/talks/2006/12/webbuilder/ria_accessibility/ria_accessibility.pdf">PDF of the slides (3.6mb, .pdf)</a></li>
                <li class="zip"><a href="http://nate.koechley.com/talks/2006/12/webbuilder/ria_accessibility.zip">Zip of the PowerPoint file and all the assets (41.9mb, .zip)</a></li>
                <li class="ppt"><a href="http://nate.koechley.com/talks/2006/12/webbuilder/ria_accessibility/ria_accessibility.ppt">The PowerPoint file itself (8.5mb, .ppt)</a></li>
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            <h4>Yahoo! vs. Yahoo! - Case Studies of Three Mainstream, Large-Scale Ajax/DHTML Implementations</h4>
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            <p>How do you manage complex object/event interfaces? Memory Management? Data Transportation? Etc.</p>
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                <li class="pdf"><a href="http://nate.koechley.com/talks/2006/12/webbuilder/Yahoo-vs-Yahoo/Yahoo-vs-Yahoo.pdf">PDF of the slides (3.2mb, .pdf)</a></li>
                <li class="zip"><a href="http://nate.koechley.com/talks/2006/12/webbuilder/Yahoo-vs-Yahoo.zip">Zip of the PowerPoint file and all the assets (39.9mb, .zip)</a></li>
                <li class="ppt"><a href="http://nate.koechley.com/talks/2006/12/webbuilder/Yahoo-vs-Yahoo/Yahoo-vs-Yahoo.ppt">The PowerPoint file itself (9.9mb, .ppt)</a></li>
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