Learn how to maintain compliance with a growing number of accessibility standards (including 508 in the U.S., WCAG 2.0, and others) by using Silverlight to produce fully accessible RIAs that are policy compliant. See how to use the new User Interface Automation (UIA) technology included in Silverlight by walking through the design and development decisions made when building Buttercup, a Silverlight based DAISY talking book reader.

4. Learning
Visual Dexterity Hearing Language
Difficulties

6. United Nations EC – Mandate 376
G3ict (Global
Initiative for i2010 Initiative
UK: Disability
Inclusive ICT) Discrimination Japan
Member States
Act (DDA) Accessibility JIS-X8341
Australia:
Disability
Section 508 Refresh Discrimination
Section 255 Telecom Act
U.S. State
Accessibility OAS / L.A. /
S.A New Zealand Government
Country Web Standards
Policies
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7. Today, DAISY is an ANSI/NISO
Need recognized in 1988 because In 1996 the DAISY Consortium is
standard that’s use is mandated
of shortcomings in Swedish formed to create and promote a
by law in many areas (e.g. text
Library Talking Books and Braille new digital talking book standard
books K-12 in the U.S)
• DAISY = Digital Accessible Information SYstem
• Standard for producing accessible and navigable multimedia documents. In
current practice, these documents are Digital Talking Books, digital text
books, or a combination of synchronized audio and text books.
• Using the DAISY Standard, content creators, such as a library serving people
who are blind or visually impaired or a book publisher can produce accessible
and navigable books to meet a variety of reading needs.

11. <Button
x:Name=quot;openBookButtonquot;
AutomationProperties.Name=quot;Open Bookquot;
AutomationProperties.HelpText=quot;Open a Daisy book
from your local computerquot;
AutomationProperties.AcceleratorKey=quot;Oquot;
...
<Button>

14. if(SystemParameters.HighContrast)
ContrastScheme =
ContrastLevel.BlackTextOnWhite;

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