Just published on the Engineering Windows blog, a great article about accessibility in Windows 7 http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/11/30/accessibility-in-windows-7.aspx -Keith

For those of you (like me) who are interested in Accessibility and/or need to ensure your websites remain in compliance with section 508 you'll be interested to know that the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 was published as a W3C Proposed Recommendation on Nov. 3, 2008. This means that the technical material of WCAG 2.0 is complete and it ...

During my recent Silverlight 2 talks, I have had a handful of questions around building Section 508 compliant applications with Silverlight 2.  I've mentioned that the accessibility features are not in the current beta, but they are coming.  If you are interested in learning a little bit about what is coming, then check out the video at ...

In my previous Silverlight Closed Captioning screencast here, I showed you how to use Expression Encoder to import Closed Captioning information to produce a solution without writing a line of code.  What if you store your Closed Captioning information in an external data source (database, SAMI file, XML file, etc.) and want to keep it ...

I get asked about automated testing of WPF apps quite often.  WPF has a nice feature called UI Automation.  From the UI Automation Overview page on MSDN: ''Microsoft UI Automation is the new accessibility framework for Microsoft Windows, available on all operating systems that support Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). UI ...

V1 of the IE Developer Toolbar is available.  One of the many features that Public Sector developers will find useful is a Section 508 checker.  More here. -Marc

I just came across this recently published article.  A significant portion of it covers accessibility.  You'll also want to download the Writing Accessible Web Applications document from MSDN Downloads.  The document talks about accessibility with AJAX. -Marc

According to the "Riga Ministerial Declaration", the latest in a seemingly unending stream of such instruments, it would appear that the EU et al intend to mandate web site accessibility, at least for all "public websites" :-The Riga Ministerial Declaration, signed today by ministers from EU Member States, ...