Tooltips are presentational
The ARIA tooltip role is functionally useless and semantically meaningless, because tooltips only benefit sighted users.
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The ARIA tooltip role is functionally useless and semantically meaningless, because tooltips only benefit sighted users.
January 30, 2025 | Technical, User Experience (UX)
Is it strictly necessary for form fields and labels to have for/id association, or is it enough to wrap the label around the input?
September 4, 2024 | KnowledgeBase Content, Technical, User Experience (UX)
A path-based gesture involves an interaction where not just the endpoints matter. So does that include swiping? Well … it depends.
April 9, 2024 | Accessibility Strategy, KnowledgeBase Content, Technical
This SC requires that interactive controls are not entirely obscured by author-created content, at the point when they receive focus.
April 4, 2024 | Accessibility Strategy, KnowledgeBase Content, Technical
This SC is concerned with cognitive function tests that are used to authenticate users, such as username and password input, CAPTCHA, and 2FA.
March 21, 2024 | Accessibility Strategy, KnowledgeBase Content, Technical
Resuming our series after the season’s hiatus, this article looks at testing for minimum target size and spacing of interactive controls.
March 7, 2024 | Accessibility Strategy, KnowledgeBase Content, Technical
The conclusion to our mini-series is detailed documentation, with everything you need to configure and use the DragAct codebase.
December 21, 2023 | KnowledgeBase Content, Technical, User Experience (UX)
Drag and drop can indeed be made accessible to assistive technologies. This article explores some techniques and solutions for achieving that.
December 20, 2023 | KnowledgeBase Content, Technical, User Experience (UX)
How can drag and drop be made accessible to assistive technologies? We’ll explore this question over three articles, beginning with a fundamental question.
December 19, 2023 | KnowledgeBase Content, Technical, User Experience (UX)
This article is about testing for 2.5.7 Dragging Movements, which requires that things like drag and drop can also be operated by single pointer actions.
December 7, 2023 | Accessibility Strategy, KnowledgeBase Content, Technical
Continuing our series of articles on how to test the new Success Criteria (SC) in WCAG 2.2, this time we’ll be looking at 3.3.7 Redundant Entry.
November 23, 2023 | Accessibility Strategy, KnowledgeBase Content, Technical
This is the first in a series of articles, looking at how to test each of the new Success Criteria in WCAG 2.2, beginning with 3.2.6 Consistent Help.
November 9, 2023 | Accessibility Strategy, KnowledgeBase Content, Technical
Combining the accessibility and usability benefits of a native range input, with the markup and design flexibility of a pure custom slider.
March 9, 2023 | KnowledgeBase Content, Technical
Focused elements disappearing under sticky headers is a long-standing accessibility problem. Here’s a solution.
December 19, 2022 | KnowledgeBase Content, Technical, User Experience (UX)
You’ve probably used visually-hidden content before. But how does the CSS actually work, and why do we use those particular properties?
November 10, 2022 | Technical
This article is an overview of the new SCs in WCAG 2.2, describing their requirements in plain language, and discussing how to meet them.
August 19, 2022 | Accessibility Strategy, Technical