A TPGi Halloween special: the horrors lurking in your HTML
It’s the time of year when many of us are spending our days pigging out on bite-sized candies…
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Challenges to digital accessibility now and in the future
Earlier this summer, I was invited to give a talk at an event organized by the Ed-ICT research consortium,…
Making it easier to quit: Accessibility for compulsive and problem gamblers
Most of us involved in building an accessible internet would agree that as the internet integrates into more of…
Captions and Transcripts and Audio Descriptions, Oh My!
When individuals consider making video accessible, the accepted (sometimes only) considered solution is captioning. And with audio, the solution…
Accessibility at the W3C Workshop on Web Games
I recently attended the W3C Workshop on Web Games, hosted at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, WA. This post is…
Notes from the a11y underground #2
Things that caught my interest since Notes from the a11y underground #1: The ARIA working group is considering making…
Disability Etiquette: University of Guelph Accessibility Conference
The University of Guelph recently held their 11th Annual Accessibility Conference. The theme this year was “Learn, Share, Grow”,…
Short note on
prefers-reduced-motionand puzzled (Windows) usersWith prefers-reduced-motion (part of CSS Media Queries Level 5’s User Preferences Media Features) it’s possible to easily suppress, or…
Notes from the a11y underground #1
Warning: Patrick looms large in various discussions I have been meaning to start a periodic noting of meaty articles…
How do You Test Success Criterion 1.3.5 on Mobile Applications?
Updated 13th May 2019 Here at TPGi we have been asking this question and been working hard to fully…
Think like an accessible UX researcher part 3: five common mistakes in usability testing and how to avoid them
This is the third in a series of posts reviewing the advice in Think like a UX Researcher, by…
Think like an accessible UX researcher part 2: How many participants?
This is the second in a series of posts looking at the advice provided in the excellent book Think like…
Think like an accessible UX researcher part 1: Defining your research problem
Earlier this year, an important new book for the field of UX was published—Think like a UX Researcher, by…
CSUN 2019 Round-up
Every year the people of TPGi make the pilgrimage to CSUN. The faces may change, the venue may change,…
Short note: The abbreviation appreciation society
The HTML <abbr> element is deceptively familiar and attractive, its been around forever (1999) and thus people assume that…
WCAG 2.1 parsing error bookmarklet – updated 25th February 2019
In 2012 I wrote: While reading Jared Smith’s excellent article WCAG Next I was drawn to the following statement…
Join Us at CSUN 2019!
It’s almost that time of year – the annual pilgrimage to sunny California for the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference….
Required attribute requirements
Introduced in HTML5, the required attribute conveys that a particular form control or grouping of controls must have a…
