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Web Accessibility Toolbar 2012

The Web Accessibility Toolbar has been updated with 2 new features: Thanks to Jun for all his work!

April 13, 2012Development
HTML data for the masses: data dump

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…

April 12, 2012Development
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:…

April 11, 2012Development
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…

April 10, 2012Development
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…

March 21, 2012Development
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…

March 12, 2012World of Accessibility
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…

March 6, 2012Development
Rough Guide: browsers, operating systems and screen reader support

Refer to: Rough Guide: browsers, operating systems and screen reader support – Updated

February 6, 2012Development
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…

January 23, 2012Development
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.

January 11, 2012Development
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…

December 2, 2011Development
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…

December 1, 2011Development
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…

November 25, 2011Development
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.

November 21, 2011Development
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.

November 14, 2011Development
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…

October 21, 2011Development
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…

October 17, 2011Development
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…

October 14, 2011Development

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Web Accessibility Toolbar 2012

HTML data for the masses: data dump

HTML data for the masses: DOCTYPE usage

HTML5 Accessibility Chops: data for the masses

Is NVDA Strictly a Web Accessibility Screen Reader?

Gaming to the Rescue for PDF Tagging

What Does a Venture Capitalist Know about Web Accessibility Anyway?

Rough Guide: browsers, operating systems and screen reader support

HTML5 Accessibility Chops: title attribute use and abuse

Are Delay Tactics Preventing Passage of New Section 508 Disability Law?

How YOU can join the W3C HTML5 Working Group in 4 easy steps

HTML5 canvas accessibility discussions 2009-2011

HTML5 Accessibility Chops: using nested figure elements

Latest ARIA landmark support data

HTML5 semantics and accessibility

Detecting if images are disabled in browsers

CSS, HTML, ARIA, browsers, assistive technology and interoperability

Opera doesn’t work with screen readers – does it matter?