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 | Development, KnowledgeBase Content
A long time ago (2008) I wrote an article: Screen Readers lack emphasis. At the time, 15 years ago, the screen readers tested did not signify the semantics of text…
January 26, 2023 | Development
In my role at TPGi I regularly get asked for advice on how stuff works. For example, the other day I was asked by a colleague “Can aria-current be used…
January 3, 2023 | Development, KnowledgeBase Content, World of Accessibility
Focused elements disappearing under sticky headers is a long-standing accessibility problem. Here’s a solution.
December 19, 2022 | Development, KnowledgeBase Content, User Experience (UX)
On 7 December 2021, the W3C Accessible Guidelines Working Group published a Working Draft of the W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0. So, that’s it, right? Pack WCAG 2 off to the junkyard? The standard is dead, long live the standard? Well, no.
December 12, 2022 | Development, World of Accessibility
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 | Development
Have automated tools told you your site is accessible? If you’re using CSS opacity, those tools may be wrong!
August 30, 2022 | Development
How to accurately reflect the document outline and semantics of subtitles without misusing headings.
July 19, 2022 | Development
The text-overflow property can be used to show visual indication of truncated text. I’m not a fan, and take every opportunity to discourage its use.
July 5, 2022 | Development
There are only enough hours in the day, but for some there are also only enough spoons. Find out what spoons—or a shortage of them—means in a digital context
April 20, 2022 | Development
SC 1.4.1 Use of Color can sometimes be misused as a tool to enforce underlines on links, but it’s not quite as simple as that. Do you know when it’s a genuine pass/fail?
April 13, 2022 | Development
When do labels fail WCAG? David Swallow highlights scenarios of WCAG label misuse and attempts to bring some clarity to the confusion.
January 6, 2022 | Development
After years of working with various QSR restaurants types, the Vispero team noticed industry-wide themes regarding the customer experience. Upon further review, we highlighted three essential requirements for fast-casual, quick-service…
December 7, 2021 | Development, Kiosk
More than one in twenty people—an estimated 430 million people—experience disabling hearing loss according to the World Health Organization’s 2021 fact sheet on deafness and hearing loss. Some are functionally…
July 7, 2021 | Development
For people working in the field of accessibility, we are very much aware that accessibility benefits everyone, not just people with disabilities. Like Billy Gregory’s widely-shared tweet from 2015 said,…
July 6, 2021 | Development
It’s already been over two years since I joined the W3C’s Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Working Group. Time flying has pretty much been the nature of my involvement with APA,…
June 29, 2021 | Development
On 31st May 2021, nine new WCAG success criteria and supporting documents were put out for wide review resulting in a wide range of comments and issues being raised on…
June 11, 2021 | Development
Having read Steve Faulkner’s post a short while ago about the often-questionable use of roles in HTML when a more suitable native HTML element would be far better, I was…
May 16, 2021 | Development
