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Results for: web components

  • Emulating failure

    […] in 1999, while and appeared in HTML 2 in 1995. Now in 2015 we have web components re-inventing native HTML buttons, radio buttons and checkboxes, for relief from the scourge of divitis, […]

    February 2, 2015Technical

  • ARIA in HTML – there goes the neighborhood

    […] in HTML5. Also developers still have the desire to roll their own interactive controls or web components even though they have been available in HTML as native elements for 15 years, […]

    October 1, 2014Technical

  • Accessibility in a Web Components World at MakingWeb

    […] had the pleasure of presenting at the 2nd MakingWeb conference in Norway, I talked about web components. Web Component Accessibility The key points I attempted to convey during the presentation: An […]

    September 26, 2014Technical

  • Web Components punch list

    […] 2014 Further reading What ARIA does not do Notes on notes (of smart people) about web components Using the tabindex attribute Building an Accessible Disclosure Button – using Web Components disclosure-button […]

    September 14, 2014Technical

  • Notes on notes (of smart people) about web components

    […] prompted written words from some big thinkers and doers. Jeremy Keith wrote a piece on Web Components followed up by a uncomfortably excited response from Alex Russell. On Piffle and Tosh […]

    September 12, 2014Technical

  • When the refresh comes

    […] all, accessibility practitioners (such as myself) have an expectation that developers (those who build the web) and browser vendors (those that provide access to the content of the web) will […]

    September 9, 2014Technical

  • What’s Happenning at TPGi?

    […] establishing the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) Building an Accessible Disclosure Button – using Web Components by Cédric Trévisan Web components are the next step in building modern web applications […]

    July 10, 2014Technical

  • filing bugs

    […] breaks things. Safari Example bug: HTML indeterminate IDL attribute not mapped to checkbox value=2 Use the Webkit bugzilla, there is an accessibility related category, you need to sign up for a […]

    June 29, 2014Technical

  • Building an Accessible Disclosure Button – using Web Components

    Web components are the next step in building modern web applications and a great way to prototype accessible widgets. Today we are going to build a disclosure widget, by extending […]

    June 24, 2014Technical

  • disclosure-button custom control

    […] demos use older syntax than what is described in the specification doc. disclosure-button repo on github Further Reading Usability and accessibility opportunities in a web component world   web components and accessibility

    May 2, 2014Technical

  • Usability and accessibility opportunities in a web component world

    […] the user interface. Once we start talking about custom widgets, we’re in the space of Web components, at which point the author can do whatever the author wants. source: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2014Apr/0012.html Don’t […]

    April 7, 2014Technical

  • Accessibility in Practice: A process-driven approach to accessibility

    […] holistic approach to accessibility, one that brings accessibility into the practice of designing and building web sites and applications. In this position paper, we explore drivers for this interest, including […]

    March 31, 2014Technical, User Experience (UX)

  • Some stuff that doesn’t work between the DOM and Shadow DOM

    Been reading a few new articles on Web Components and accessibility, which lead me to re-read an old post I wrote: Notes on Web Components + ARIA. I noted the demo […]

    March 25, 2014Technical

  • Is the New Vimeo HTML5 Player Accessible?

    We were excited to learn that Vimeo has released a new version of Vimeo Player.  This version is based on HTML5 and has added new accessibility features that improve the video…

    January 8, 2014Technical

  • Short Note on ARIA, Dragon and Standards

    […] their part to make HTML content accessible. A technological framework for this is provided via web standards including: HTML, WAI-ARIA and WCAG. If Assistive Technology vendors do not work with […]

    November 19, 2013Technical

  • Mobile Accessibility Examples from Implementing UAAG 2.0

    […] serve as a guide to developers and user-agent vendors.  It outlines the process for making Web browsers, media players, and assistive technologies (software that some people with disabilities use in interacting with […]

    July 5, 2013Accessibility Strategy

  • Notes on accessibility of Microsoft.com’s new home page

    […] as a menu with menu items as they are a list of links in a web site not a menu in a web application. Adobe have also recently implemented a […]

    October 4, 2012Technical

  • How to Write User Stories for Web Accessibility

    […] agile development, user stories capture what a user does or needs to do with the website or application. These “stories” are the basis for defining the functions that the system […]

    September 14, 2012World of Accessibility