8 Ways to Sunday

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The Web Accessibility Tools Consortium [WAT-C] provides a collection of free tools to assist both developers and designers in the development and testing of accessible web content. The consortium is a collaboration of some of the world’s leading accessibility practitioners, founded by Accessible Information Solutions (Australia), Infoaxia (Japan), The Paciello Group (USA), Wrong HTML (Japan), and Juicy Studio (UK).

Our goals are to develop new tools, improve current tools and expand the range of browsers, operating systems and languages in which our tools are available.

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Some interesting insights on using WordPress as a general-purpose CMS.

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Though I was supposed to return to Kansas last Friday, I’m still in Tucson. I’m long overdue for an update on the whole reason we came here — my mother’s health — so let me start from the top. If you’re just now joining this saga-in-progress, you can read this post first for all the back-story.

Setbacks

A few days after we arrived, Angela had her first doctor’s appointment. The doctor is a toxicologist specializing in patients who’ve had toxic mold exposures. Since repeating one of the things he said might get him in trouble with another physician at the University Medical Center, I’ll call him “Dr. Erickson.” He was sympathetic and very knowledgeable, but he couldn’t do much for her directly. He told us what kinds of specialists she should be seeing. He also gave us three bits of information that, while crucial, have forced a massive re-organization and re-assessment of this trip.   (more…)