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Five Screen Reader Accessibility Tests Your QA Team Should Do

If your company is working on improving the accessibility of the website for people with disabilities, ensuring your content is accessible to screen reader users will be one of the…

May 23, 2023Accessibility Strategy, Development, World of Accessibility

Software Accessibility Checklist: SaaS and ADA Compliance

Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms have changed the way businesses are run. Because they allow users to log in via a web browser anywhere there’s an internet connection, companies…

May 17, 2023Accessibility Strategy, Business, Development, World of Accessibility

Fieldsets, Legends and Screen Readers again

I wrote an article in 2007 called Fieldsets, Legends and Screen Readers. It was my first post on the TPGi blog. I have been meaning to provide an update to…

May 16, 2023Development, KnowledgeBase Content, User Experience (UX)

Respect your children

A subset of ARIA roles are defined as having presentational children. These are mostly a subset of widget roles Presentational Children The DOM descendants are presentational. User agents SHOULD NOT expose descendants of this element through the…

May 12, 2023Development, World of Accessibility

A Whole Lot of Bovver Over Hover

Should you fail interactive elements that have questionable hover styles under WCAG SC 1.4.11? Spoiler alert: the answer is no.

May 5, 2023Development

The Knowledge and How to Get it: Part Two

Part Two of an edited transcription of the presentation delivered by Hans Hillen (in person) and Ricky Onsman (via video) on 15 March at CSUN 2023, in which they share some of their experiences setting up the TPGi Knowledge Center.

April 24, 2023ARC Platform, Development, KnowledgeBase Content, World of Accessibility

The Knowledge and How to Get it: Part One

Part One of an edited transcription of the presentation delivered by Hans Hillen (in person) and Ricky Onsman (via video) on 15 March at CSUN 2023, in which they share some of their experiences setting up the TPGi Knowledge Center.

April 17, 2023ARC Platform, Development, KnowledgeBase Content, World of Accessibility

What Makes a Good Screenshot?

Do you use screenshots when loggin issues? They can really help to clarify problem areas. Ian Lloyd provides pointers on what makes a useful screenshot.

April 4, 2023Development

When I Get That Low Contrast Feeling, I Need Non-Textual Healing

Do you sometimes struggle to know whether a non-text element fails for low contrast under WCAG SC 1.4.11? Try this quiz to see how you fare.

April 2, 2023Development

Evolving custom sliders

Combining the accessibility and usability benefits of a native range input, with the markup and design flexibility of a pure custom slider.

March 9, 2023Development, KnowledgeBase Content

Screen Readers support for text level HTML semantics

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, 2023Development

Carry On Testing 2023

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, 2023Development, KnowledgeBase Content, World of Accessibility

Prevent focused elements from being obscured by sticky headers

Focused elements disappearing under sticky headers is a long-standing accessibility problem. Here’s a solution.

December 19, 2022Development, KnowledgeBase Content, User Experience (UX)

WCAG 3.0: are we there yet?

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, 2022Development, World of Accessibility

The anatomy of visually-hidden

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, 2022Development

An argument against CSS opacity

Have automated tools told you your site is accessible? If you’re using CSS opacity, those tools may be wrong!

August 30, 2022Development

Subheadings, subtitles, alternative titles and taglines in HTML

How to accurately reflect the document outline and semantics of subtitles without misusing headings.

July 19, 2022Development

The Ballad of Text Overflow

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, 2022Development

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