The latest in accessibility law, strategy, program management, and news, as well as upcoming events, and articles on web development issues, techniques, design patterns, auditing, WCAG, and resources of a technical nature.
In his latest article Mozilla accessibility engineer Alexander Surkov describes an interesting implementation development in FireFox 14, which is a possible solution using ARIA to provide a link to a…
Refer to: aViewer 2013
Pull up your favorite website, close your eyes, and imagine trying to use it. Yes, that is extreme, but users with disabilities face serious challenges trying to use inaccessible websites. …
Latest Update: The state of hidden content support in 2016 As a developer and also a consultant advising developers on how to develop accessible content, it is important to have…
Anybody with any real world accessibility experience knows that using CSS :focus {outline:none} as recommended in the WHATWG HTML living standard is not a solution to any problem, it only…
I tweeted yesterday about initial results of data crunching on ARIA landmark role use on the top 10,000 web sites HTML home page code samples. What I found is very…
The Web Accessibility Toolbar has been updated with 2 new features: Thanks to Jun for all his work!
I have been doing regex searches on the HTML of the 8900 or so of the top 10000 home pages I collected over easter and am providing the results of…
Of a sample of approximately 8900 home pages from a list of of the top 10,000 sites the following HTML doctype usage was found: Total pages with a doctype declaration:…
One of the stumbling blocks for working out what the effects on the accessibility of new (and old) HTML5 features is not having any publicly accessible usage data. It is…
Last week, Jamie and Mick of NVDA announced that their open source, free screen reader organization is in need of funding: Blind Ambition Plea for Funds to Keep Free Software…
Have you been told that you must make a PDF document accessible? Assuming that you are either an old hand at this process or have now learned what it means…
Earlier today I responded to a private Linked-In discussion thread posted by Eric Velleman. The context of the discussion involved the need of legal mandates to enforce web accessibility. In…
Refer to: Rough Guide: browsers, operating systems and screen reader support – Updated
For the past 7 years myself and others have banged on about the trouble with the title attribute in regards to accessibility and usability. Bottom line is that it is…
Brian Landrigan – Director of Sales & Marketing at TPGi made the following representation to the Public Hearing on the Draft Update of ICT Requirements, January 11 2012.
A great new initiative was launched recently: Move the Web Forward, which encourages developers to get involved in standards development. So I though it opportune to update and expand upon…
Charles Pritchard has taken the time to provide an email overview of Canvas accessibility discussions which have taken place on the public-canvas-api over the past 3 years. I have reformatted…