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Tuesday, December 02, 2008 8:37 AM

Accessibility in Windows 7

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
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Friday, November 14, 2008 11:38 AM

ATTENTION WEB DEVELOPERS WCAG 2.0 Moves to Last Stage in W3C Approval Process

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
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Thursday, November 01, 2007 3:31 PM

SCREENCAST: Adding Closed Captioning to video using Silverlight, ASP.NET AJAX, WCF and an external data source

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
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Friday, June 15, 2007 11:22 AM

Testing a WPF UI

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
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Friday, June 15, 2007 11:13 AM

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

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
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Saturday, March 17, 2007 9:33 AM

Building ASP.NET 2.0 Web Sites Using Web Standards

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.
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006 7:17 PM

You MUST sign up for the Bi-weekly MSDN Flash

Just check out the latest issue at http://msdn.microsoft.com/Flash/ This a bi-weekly newsletter that can be customized to the topics you are most interested in. Mine arrived this morning and contained info on the redesigned Windows Vista Developer Center
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Monday, April 10, 2006 4:34 PM

Usability Toolbar & IE Spell-Checker

Sara Ford informed me about this post . I haven't tried either of the tools. There seems to be some overlap in functionality with the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar , but what craftsman doesn't like additional tools in their toolbox? -Marc Technorati
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Sunday, April 09, 2006 11:55 AM

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

This little gem is an invaluable tool for any web developer. "The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages." Here's a list of the features from the download
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Tuesday, December 27, 2005 11:05 AM

ASP.NET "Atlas" December CTP is out

I was doing my periodic "blog catch up" this morning and came across a few announcements about the latest drop of ASP.NET "Atlas." There's been quite a bit of rework, but I'll let you go to the source ( Brian , Nikhil , and Scott ) for all the details.
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Thursday, December 22, 2005 11:08 AM

ASP.NET for designers

Are you a web designer or a developer interested in design? Well there's an ASP.NET section on MSDN just for you. The ASP.NET for Designers section is at http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/design/default.aspx . There's a nice set of design templates
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005 4:28 PM

CSS Properties Windows Add-in for Visual Studio 2005

This nifty new tool will give you the ability with Visual Studio 2005 to edit the styles that are inherited from a linked style sheet. Sandbox here: http://www.asp.net/sandbox/app_sandman.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=1 Download here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/8/B/68B66E20-FAAF-4F5A-AFF4-542FBBCD1530/CSSProperties.msi
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Monday, December 05, 2005 7:47 PM

Accessibility, Visual Studio 2005, ASP.NET 2.0

Good article and acknowledgement of the great progress the Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0 teams have made -- article by Bloor Research at http://www.it-analysis.com/content.php?articleid=13021&SESSID=5a4a9db278283d56041e6e482fef70f7 --Darryl
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Thursday, October 27, 2005 5:15 PM

Creating an Accessible Web Page (Screencast)

One of the things I hear often from our Federal customers is "How do I create Section 508 compliant web sites?" ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 to the rescue! Learn how to get started by watching my screencast and reading the related material here
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Friday, October 07, 2005 12:57 PM

The Code Room -- short 'TV show'

Check out http://www.thecoderoom.com/ -- a great, fun way to learn about some of Microsoft's latest tools and technologies. From their about page: The Code Room is a 1/2 hour pilot TV show that exposes technologists to the latest tools and technologies
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