HTML5 Accessibility Chops: hidden and aria-hidden support on the UP!
Latest Update: The state of hidden content support in 2016 At the start of 2012 I published results on…
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HTML5 Accessibility Chops: ARIA role=alert browser support
For a more recent set of results, see ARIA alert support (April 2017) ARIA role=alert is supported across modern…
HTML5 Accessibility Chops: notes on using ARIA
I have jotted down some notes on ARIA concepts and usage that may be useful for developers.
HTML5 Accessibility Chops: When to use an ARIA role
There has been discussion of late on whether authors should be allowed to include an ARIA role value on…
HTML5 Accessibility Chops: hidden and aria-hidden
Latest Update: The state of hidden content support in 2016 As a developer and also a consultant advising developers…
HTML5 Accessibility Chops: ‘real world’ ARIA landmark use
I tweeted yesterday about initial results of data crunching on ARIA landmark role use on the top 10,000 web…
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…
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…
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…
HTML5 Accessibility Chops: the figure and figcaption elements
The figure and figcaption elements are 2 of the new elements in HTML5. Together they provide the promise of…
HTML5 Accessibility Chops: ARIA landmark support
The ARIA landmark roles can be used in HTML5 to markup regions of a page. Landmark roles add a…
HTML5 Accessibility Chops: form control labeling
There are 2 methods of labelling a form control using the HTML label element. You can wrap the control…
HTML5 Accessibility Chops: Block Links
It is conforming in HTML5 for links to include block level elements such as headings and paragraphs, this was…
HTML5 Accessibility Chops: Conflicting advice and requirements
HTML is currently defined in multiple documents, each purporting to be THE definition of HTML/HTML5. The documents are developed,…
HTML5 Accessibility Chops: ARIA & validation
I tweeted the other day, suggesting people switch to the HTML5 doctype as the use of ARIA is conforming…
HTML5 Accessibility Chops: the alt decision
A recent decision by the W3C HTML working group has caused much discussion and some consternation within the accessibility…
HTML5 Accessibility Chops: Just use a (native HTML) button
Many User interface widgets can be developed using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, in some cases developers build custom versions…
HTML5 Accessibility Chops: section elements
HTML5 introduces new section elements. The new elements include header, footer, section, article, nav and aside. What is the…
