Accessibility and Social Media

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1. Jason Cortes, GOER Web Programming/Developer Jcortes@goer.state.ny.us
2. RSS and Accessibility Updating Facebook and Twitter Platform APIs ◦ Facebook ◦ Twitter Questions
4. RSS: stands for really simple syndication. RSS was originally developed by Netscape in 1999 Over the following 4 years with help from the community, it evolved into the current standard: RSS 2.0 (released in 2002) The Standard is maintained by Harvard, and is currently the most popular form of syndication.
5. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> <rss version="2.0"> <channel> <title>RSS and Accessibility</title> <link>http://www.nysforum.org/committees/itaccessibility/</link> <description>The Forum has a long history of addressing accessibility issues related to disabilities as well as "digital divide" issues but has done so in separate contexts. </description> <image> <image> <image> <image> <url>...LOCATION OF IMAGE FILE...</url> <url>...LOCATION OF IMAGE FILE...</url> <url>...LOCATION OF IMAGE FILE...</url> <url>...LOCATION OF IMAGE FILE...</url> <title>...TITLE OF IMAGE ALSO SERVES AS THE ALT TAG...</title> <title>...TITLE OF IMAGE ALSO SERVES AS THE ALT TAG...</title> <title>...TITLE OF IMAGE ALSO SERVES AS THE ALT TAG...</title> <title>...TITLE OF IMAGE ALSO SERVES AS THE ALT TAG...</title> <link>...URL...</link> <link>...URL...</link> <link>...URL...</link> <link>...URL...</link> </image> </image> </image> </image> <item> <title>RSS Tutorial</title> <link>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html</link> <description>RSS 2.0 at Harvard Law</description> <enclosure url="http://www.google.com/media/anything.mp3" <enclosure url="http://www.google.com/media/anything.mp3" <enclosure url="http://www.google.com/media/anything.mp3" <enclosure url="http://www.google.com/media/anything.mp3" length="78645" type="audio/mpeg" /> length="78645" type="audio/mpeg" /> length="78645" type="audio/mpeg" /> length="78645" type="audio/mpeg" /> </item> </channel> </rss>
6. Note the sections highlighted in the proceeding page: “IMAGE” ELEMENT ◦ The title tag here is used in place of ALT tags generally used in HTML “ENCLOSURE” ELEMENT ◦ For use with multimedia/animations ◦ Be sure to apply best practices for accessible users
9. It is possible to create your own application for updating content to both services. Any server side scripting language can help you to create RSS feeds, including both ColdFusion and PHP.
11. There are 5 main components of the Facebook platform ◦ Facebook Markup Language (FBML) ◦ Facebook Query Language (FQL) ◦ Facebook JavaScript (FBJS) ◦ API calls ◦ Client libraries
12. HTTP Request: GET, POST, DELETE Oauth API Methods ◦ Publishing ◦ The Information Stream ◦ The Follow Network ◦ Communication ◦ Member Accounts ◦ Admin ◦ Search
13. Use of PHP Libraries can help extensively with displaying the content of your Facebook/Twitter accounts Accessibly RSS is a universal format which should serve as the basis of aggregations Questions…
14. RSS 2.0: ◦ http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html Facebook: ◦ HipHop- Developers Blog ◦ Getting Started with API- Getting Started Twitter: ◦ Twitter API wiki- http://apiwiki.twitter.com/ Twitter feed: ◦ http://twitterfeed.com/