HTML data for the masses: DOCTYPE usage
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:…
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HTML5 Accessibility Chops: data for the masses
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…
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Is NVDA Strictly a Web Accessibility Screen Reader?
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…
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Gaming to the Rescue for PDF Tagging
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…
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What Does a Venture Capitalist Know about Web Accessibility Anyway?
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…
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Rough Guide: browsers, operating systems and screen reader support
Refer to: Rough Guide: browsers, operating systems and screen reader support – Updated
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HTML5 Accessibility Chops: title attribute use and abuse
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…
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Are Delay Tactics Preventing Passage of New Section 508 Disability Law?
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.
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How YOU can join the W3C HTML5 Working Group in 4 easy steps
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…
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HTML5 canvas accessibility discussions 2009-2011
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…
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HTML5 Accessibility Chops: using nested figure elements
If you have a number of related images (or other content) with caption text, you can use nested figure elements to associate both a group caption and an individual caption…
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Latest ARIA landmark support data
Noting that the landmark support test results I conducted back in July 2011 were being tweeted recently, I though it would be good to update the results.
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HTML5 semantics and accessibility
This is a comment I made on the article Pursuing Semantic Value The author requested that I post it separately, so I have.
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Detecting if images are disabled in browsers
I received an email from an old friend and colleague pointing out that with images disabled in the browser, the support information in the data tables on HTML5Accessibility.com disappears. An…
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CSS, HTML, ARIA, browsers, assistive technology and interoperability
A number of issues are being debated in accessibility circles at the moment. These primarily revolve around how browsers and assistive technology interpret and represent HTML semantics via accessibility APIs…
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Opera doesn’t work with screen readers – does it matter?
One thing that should be obvious to anybody who has read my recent posts Rough Guide: browsers, operating systems and screen reader support and a Brief history of browser accessibility…
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Browser & Assistive Technology Tests Redux
I am always looking back through the TPGi blog archives to find tests I have done in the past, as often I have forgotten where the tests reside. To remind…
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Brief history of browser accessibility support
The development of a ‘Brief history of browser accessibility support‘ was prompted by Google’s Evolution of the Web interactive infographic. I was dazzled by its coolness, but noticed that amongst…