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Contoso Riders Quick App

Monday, June 2, 2008 – 11:11 AM

I recently had the opportunity to demo our Contoso Riders Quick App at EnergizeIT in Toronto. A big thanks to Jean-Luc David and Chris Dufour for being such great hosts and for making our Services track a great success!

  
So you might be asking yourself; ”What’s a Quick App?”
Quick Apps are projects that showcase the Microsoft Live Platform  service [...]

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Fangs: the Screen Reader Emulator for Firefox

Monday, February 19, 2007 – 1:07 PM

I want to add another tool to Mark’s post on accessibility.
Fangs is a Firefox extension that emulates the output of a screen reader in plain text.
Why would you want to use this instead of an actual screen reader?
Screen readers by their very nature are linear. Testing sites with lots of content would take ages; you [...]

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