5 free test tools: A11yTO meetup
#a11yTO (Accessibility Toronto) hosted a meetup at Hacker You where Bill Anstice and I gave a talk on how to…
August 17, 2018 | Development
#a11yTO (Accessibility Toronto) hosted a meetup at Hacker You where Bill Anstice and I gave a talk on how to…
August 14, 2018 | Development
Anyone booking a vacation has likely encountered persuasive notifications urging them to “Hurry, only 2 tickets left!” or to…
July 31, 2018 | Development
Sticking with a native form control will almost always give your users a more accessible experience than trying to…
July 28, 2018 | Development
The JAWS screen reader has fairly recently changed the way it supports the announcement of ARIA landmark roles and…
July 27, 2018 | Development
It is easy to get the idea that ARIA fixes everything for accessibility, but the reality is that ARIA…
July 10, 2018 | Development
I just got back from the TechAccessOK conference, which is a two-day conference on accessibility that’s put on by…
July 3, 2018 | Development
One of the most important aspects of digital accessibility advocacy is helping the next generation of designers, developers and…
June 29, 2018 | Development
Modal dialogs continue to be troublesome UI components all across the web. Putting aside the fact they are often…
June 26, 2018 | Development
When we talk about Progressive Enhancement (PE), we usually focus on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and often forget about…
June 19, 2018 | Development
I presented an afternoon workshop on accessibility for WordCamp Europe in Belgrade. I wrote it to include group exercises…
June 8, 2018 | Development
This week (5 June 2018) saw the release of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 as a W3C…
June 1, 2018 | Development
Guelph University has just wrapped up its 10th annual accessibility conference. I returned to present my talk Everything I…
May 24, 2018 | Development
One of the new success criterion in WCAG 2.1 is 1.4.12 Text Spacing. Conforming to this criteria provides accommodation…
May 21, 2018 | Development
Last week I had to pleasure of attending the John Slatin AccessU conference at St. Edward’s University in Austin,…
May 18, 2018 | Development
At the 2018 John Slatin AccessU conference organized by Knowbility, I spoke about the wide variety of circumstances driving…
May 16, 2018 | Development
The aria-busy attribute, when set to true is supposed to provide a hint to screen readers that the content…
May 15, 2018 | Development
DeltaV is a conference that “redefines web performance”. It was held for the first time in London, and I…
May 9, 2018 | Development
Accessible By Design is a new conference, organised by Indiana University, and hosted in the beautiful town of Bloomington….