Join Duff Johnson, chair of the US PDF Universal Accessibility Committee (PDF/UA), on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 10:00 am US Pacific, for a free Tech Talk on essential concepts in document accessibility, the role of Acrobat's Accessibility Checker, and tips on how to recognize and correct accessibility problems in PDF files.

Duff will offer detailed advice on coping with the following common document structure challenges:

• Walking the tags tree
• Understanding content order vs tagging
• When to tag, when to make an artifact
• Setting column and rowspan in sophisticated tables.

Register for this event.

Lothian Centre for Inclusive Living (LCL) have won the Breathrough Award for their new website and Online help service.

As the web developer who designed these services with LCIL I am of course extremely happy to hear about this award.

UPDATE: I got this nice email from Catherine Garrod,

Hi Jim,

I think Carol has already let you know that LCIL has won a Breakthrough Independent Living Award under the Information category for the LCIL website and the Grapevine Online service. The judges were particularly impressed with the website and asked for the name of the person who designed the website. So much of the credit goes to you for producing our new website. Breakthrough UK is a user-led disability organisation so it has been a particular honour for us to receive recognition for the website and online service from this group. There is more information about the Breakthrough awards on their website.

Best wishes,
Catherine Garrod
Information Co-ordinator
Grapevine, Disability Information Service

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