Google Developer Podcast: Google Developer Podcast Episode Nine: The status of accessibility on the Web

By Dion Almaer, Google Developer Programs

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T.V. Raman is a Research Scientist at Google who knows a thing or two about accessibility. We took the opportunity to interview him, and Hubbell, his seeing-eye dog (who was nice and quiet).

We then delve into the problems of developing accessible websites, and solutions to some of the problems.

How not to develop in a user-agent specific manner

Fun issues with screen readers

How audio CAPTCHA brings equality to the pain of CAPTCHA, and how people who can see use the audio ones

How painful is the Web to view for a blind person

Using the Google Web Transcoder (the other GWT!) to clean up pages

How CSS hasn't been as leveraged as much as we would like

How the increase in mobile and widget platforms has a side effect of accessible views

How RIA applications deal with accessibility

How T.V. has written custom clients for Google APIs

What standards groups are doing in the accessibility space

Dealing with Python, a language that cares about whitespace, as a blind man.

You can download the episode directly, or subscribe to the show (click here for iTunes one-click subscribe).
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