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If you’re not a regular listener of the Boagworld weekly web design / development podcast then you need to subscribe to it. They’ve had a month off and are back with episode 116 and a new site redesign - don’t mention the cows because its the part Paul didn’t design and everyone mentions it. They also provide a full written transcript on their podcast page. And don’t mention Paul’s new way of referencing his supporting links in the podcast (in human non-friendly terms), we’re all smarter than that right. Ha ha.

Seriously, if you’re a professional in this industry this is a staple of your diet. Get to it.

100 Killer Web Accessibility Resources: Blogs, Forums and Tutorials for your best practice web design professional self to do the right thing.

Luke Wroblewski’s new book Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks is published by Rosenfeld Media and available in paperback or digital. Its also on my must read list for 2008.

Gez Lemon notes that WebKit, the framework behind Safari and other browsers, is now starting to implement WAI-ARIA (Web Accessibility Initiative - Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite) bringing all four major browsers to support it to some degree.

There’s a rundown on the Yahoo! Developer Network blog of what went on for the Accessibility 2.0 Conference in London last week.

HTML 5 Alternative Text, and Authoring Tools discusses the deeper issues involved with the HTML 5 Working Group’s conversation about alternative text. I’ve never agreed it should be optional for authoring tools and totally agree with Gez. Particularly the section on research. What’s to research? Why should the uninterested tail be wagging the web standards horse?

I have an idea… why don’t we let Flickr worry about its own business model and ability to provide compliant software? Just a thought for the working group.

Chris Heilmann’s presentation slides - Fencing in the Habitat - from AbilityNet’s Accessibility 2.0 Conference on how to sell accessibility, and importantly what we might be doing wrong with our current methodology.

Wilson Miner on A List Apart has some interesting suggestions for creating accessible data visualization with web standards. It would also be useful if you first read Edward Tufte’s Beautiful Evidence as its a wealth of knowledge about data visualization.