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• Capability Survey of Japanese User Agents and Its Impact on Web Accessibility

  Takayuki Watanabe, Masahiro Umegaki · 2006 · Proceedings of the 2006 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A): Building the Mobile Web: Rediscovering Accessibility?

  This paper presents a systematic evaluation of four major Japanese user agents for people with visual disabilities — IBM Home Page Reader 3.04 (a voice browser), PC-Talker XP 3.04, 95 Reader 6.0, and JAWS 6.2 (Japanese edition) — tested against the W3C UAAG 1.0 Test Suite for…

  user agents · screen readers · UAAG · assistive technology evaluation · Japanese accessibility

• Transforming Flash to XML for Accessibility Evaluations

  Shin Saito, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa · 2006 · Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

  This paper from IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory proposes a method for transforming Flash content into XML structures to enable automated accessibility evaluation. At the time of publication, Flash was installed on over 95% of personal computers and was a major source of…

  Flash accessibility · automated testing · accessibility evaluation · rich internet applications · screen readers

• Accessibility and design: a failure of the imagination

  Bob Regan · 2004 · Proceedings of the 2004 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  Written by Bob Regan of Macromedia (makers of Flash), this paper argues that the poor state of web accessibility represents a "failure of the imagination" — a failure by both the design community to engage with accessibility and by accessibility advocates to inspire designers.…

  visual design · accessible design · Flash accessibility · CSS · web standards

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