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Live Seminar, National Press Club, May 18, 2011 – Section 508 Compliance in a Web 3.0 World – Accessibility of Mobile Apps, Social Media and More.

What does Section 508 compliance mean to your Open Government initiative?

Unprecedented access to government services through social media and “Apps for Everyday Life” bring new challenges for your Section 508 program. Learn the best way to tackle Section 508 compliance and changes you will need to consider in order to ensure the success of [...]

Web Sites Accessibility Evaluation Research

by Glenda Sims, Senior Accessibility Consultant at Deque

I’m excited to be part of a group of experts contributing to a research project by Nirmita Narasimhan on web site accessibility evaluation methods. Contributors to this research project include:

Shadi Abou-Zahra (W3C) Srinivasu Chakravarthula (Yahoo! India) Glenda Sims (Deque) [...]

Deque @ CSUN 2011 Downloadable Guide

We thought you might want to have this handy, downloadable guide to all of our activities, presentations, demos, and special events at CSUN 2011–here you go! Come see us in our Showcase Suite for all the excitement!

Download me! Deque @ CSUN 2011

Remember to RSVP for our exclusive VIP events on Wednesday [...]

CSUN 2011: Special Events, Presentations, and More!

We’re very excited about CSUN 2011, the web accessibility industry’s leading conference! This year, we’re presenting several top-notch papers, and have two very special evening events planned.

First, let’s talk about the presentations. We’ve got something for everyone. For starters, “Worldspace FireEyes: a Free Tool for AJAX Application Development”. Or maybe [...]

Bill Makes Mobile Phones, Internet-based Services, and Online Videos Accessible to Persons with Disabilities

In October, Congress passed a bill that will make the mobile phones and the Web more accessible to Americans with disabilities. Specifically, the 21st Century Communications & Video Accessibility Act does a few things for persons with disabilities (PWB)—it will let them choose from a broader selection of mobile and smart phones that provide fully [...]

Deque Systems, a Microsoft Gold Certified Development Partner, Releases a First-Of-Its-Kind, Web Accessibility Solution for SharePoint

Deque Systems announced a breakthrough in web accessibility solutions by releasing a first-of-its-kind suite of add-ins, ribbon extensions, and Web Parts for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 tools that ensure Section 508 compliance. This makes Deque the first company to produce a suite of tools that enable SharePoint users to avoid producing the host of compliance problems [...]

Deque Systems Announces First Comprehensive Web Accessibility Management Solution For Global Brands

Worldspace Enterprise Fully Integrates With HP Quality Center

Deque Systems announced Worldspace Enterprise, the web accessibility solution trusted by the world’s top global brands, has been successfully evaluated by the Hewlett-Packard (HP) Quality Center against their extensive certification criteria. This makes Enterprise the first tool that enables complex organizations to stay in compliance with best [...]

Deque Releases NextGen Web Accessibility Tool Free to Developer Community

Deque Systems announced the global launch of Worldspace™ FireEyes™, an unprecedented, next generation Web accessibility tool that ensures both static and dynamic content within a web portfolio are compliant with accessibility standards such as Section 508, WCAG 1.0 and WCAG 2.0.

Developers face real problems trying to make dynamic websites and applications, like Facebook, accessible [...]

Worldspace FireEyes Beta 2: HOT FIX

We have discovered and fixed an issue in Worldspace FireEyes that affected new users and made it impossible for them to use the product at all. The issue also caused Firebug to stop working. The fix has been deployed to the download site and can be downloaded from: http://fireeyes.dequecloud.com/fireeyes_download.php

To [...]

Worldspace FireEyes Beta 2 Released

The feedback we have received so far on the beta 1 for Worldspace FireEyes has been great. I have received comments ranging from “Very impressive!!” and “This is very easy to use, the reading order analysis is great and I was able to immediately determine the reason for the issue” to “This finds things that [...]