Short note on scoping mechanisms
In 2 recent articles I have illustrated why the scope attribute is not needed on data tables with one…
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A web of anxiety: accessibility for people with anxiety and panic disorders [Part 2]
“Unethical”, “misleading” and “exploitative” are the words used by the Norwegian Consumer Council to describe the use of dark…
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Describing aria-describedby
A well-designed user interface (UI) should clearly identify important content and controls. Often people correlate this to using prominent…
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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…
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A web of anxiety: accessibility for people with anxiety and panic disorders [Part 1]
Anyone booking a vacation has likely encountered persuasive notifications urging them to “Hurry, only 2 tickets left!” or to…
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Short note on the accessibility of styled form controls
Sticking with a native form control will almost always give your users a more accessible experience than trying to…
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Shortish note on JAWS support for regions
The JAWS screen reader has fairly recently changed the way it supports the announcement of ARIA landmark roles and…
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Short note on ARIA support
It is easy to get the idea that ARIA fixes everything for accessibility, but the reality is that ARIA…
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Embracing Plain Language for Better Accessibility: TechAccessOK 2018
I just got back from the TechAccessOK conference, which is a two-day conference on accessibility that’s put on by…
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Making accessibility teachable: SICSA
One of the most important aspects of digital accessibility advocacy is helping the next generation of designers, developers and…
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The current state of modal dialog accessibility
Modal dialogs continue to be troublesome UI components all across the web. Putting aside the fact they are often…
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Short note on progressive ARIA
When we talk about Progressive Enhancement (PE), we usually focus on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and often forget about…
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Prototyping Accessibility: WordCamp Europe 2018
I presented an afternoon workshop on accessibility for WordCamp Europe in Belgrade. I wrote it to include group exercises…
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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1
This week (5 June 2018) saw the release of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 as a W3C…
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Everything I Know about Accessibility I Learned from Stack Overflow: Guelph Accessibility Conference
Guelph University has just wrapped up its 10th annual accessibility conference. I returned to present my talk Everything I…
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Short note on getting spaced out with SC 1.4.12 Text Spacing
One of the new success criterion in WCAG 2.1 is 1.4.12 Text Spacing. Conforming to this criteria provides accommodation…
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Introduction to ARIA: The Why, The How, The New, The Weird… (AccessU)
Last week I had to pleasure of attending the John Slatin AccessU conference at St. Edward’s University in Austin,…
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Cognitive Disabilities – Designing for a broad spectrum: AccessU
At the 2018 John Slatin AccessU conference organized by Knowbility, I spoke about the wide variety of circumstances driving…
