Prix Möbius Suisse Rewards Inaccessible Flash Site 2009-10-07

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This post was first posted by me on etcjournal.wordpress.com (later etcjournal.com) on October 7, 2009
. See http://etcjournal.com/2009/10/07/prix-moebius-suisse-rewards-inaccessibility and the version saved on the Internet Archive on October 15, 2009. The H3 styles for titles of the original have been changed to H4.

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By Claude Almansi
Editor, Accessibility Issues

Last Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009, the awards ceremony of  Premio Möbius took place in Lugano (CH). There were two categories: Premio Möbius Multimedia, for cultural CDs and DVDs in Italian, and Grand Prix Möbius Suisse, for Swiss websites about cultural heritage.

Accessibility and Common Sense 2009-06-12

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This post was first posted by me on etcjournal.wordpress.com (later etcjournal.com) on June 12, 2009. See http://etcjournal.com/2009/06/12/accessibility-and-common-sense and the version saved on the Internet Archive on June 14, 2009. The H4 styles for titles are in the original.

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By Claude Almansi

Editor, Accessibility Issues

Technology and technology guidelines are very important in implementing accessibility. Yet accessibility is not a technology issue — it is a common sense issue, both because it is logical and because making things as accessible as possible for as many people as possible becomes an obvious necessity once you “sense in common” with the other person, put yourself in his or her place.