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Articles for digital accessibility professionals exploring web development issues, techniques, design patterns, auditing, WCAG, and resources of a technical nature.

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  • New WAI-ARIA Working Drafts Published

    WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite, defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content and…

    February 4, 2008Technical

  • HTML 5 first working draft released

    The first working draft of HTML5 has been published: “…to make comments regarding this document, please send them to public-html-comments@w3.org. …All feedback is welcome…The publication of this document by the…

    January 22, 2008Technical

  • NVDA – a free and open source screen reader for Windows

    People often ask on the various accessibility related forums and mailing lists, a question like: If I wanted a Screen reader program which one should I buy? For many developers…

    January 16, 2008Technical

  • Using WAI-ARIA Roles and States with the YUI Menu Control

    Using WAI-ARIA Roles and States with the YUI Menu Control. YUI Menu author Todd Kloots and Yahoo! accessibility guru Victor Tsaran introduce the WAI-ARIA Roles and States

    December 22, 2007Technical

  • Opera’s Lie Blasts Microsoft on IE and Web Standards Support

    Take a look at how Opera’s Hakon Lie publicly blasted Microsoft for it’s lack of support of Web Standards! Lie states, “Opera has filed a formal complaint with the European…

    December 14, 2007Technical

  • The Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF)

    IBM announced today (4th, December, 2007)Â the contribution of its Accessibility Tools Framework (ACTF)Â to the Eclipse Foundation, an open source community focused on developing a universal platform of frameworks…

    December 5, 2007Technical

  • Providing Context for Ambiguous Link Phrases

    It’s not unusual to stumble upon ambiguous link phrases on web pages (phrases such as, “Click here”, “More”, and so on). Some screen readers allow users to gather a list…

    December 2, 2007Technical

  • CSS Editor bookmarklet for IE

    For times when CSS styles need to be tested, on the fly, in Internet Explorer, the CSS editor bookmarklet can come in handy. It was originally developed from the test…

    November 29, 2007Technical

  • Fieldsets, Legends and Screen Readers

    Note: I wrote this article in 2007, there is a 2023 update Fieldsets, Legends and Screen Readers again. Italian translation Fieldset, Legend e Screen Reader by Roberto Castaldo. The grouping…

    November 22, 2007Technical

  • One Reason Why Section 508 Isn’t Working

    An area of accessibility that I have been deeply involved in for the past 18 months is the TEITAC (Telecommunications and Electronic and Information Technology Advisory Committee). By the way,…

    November 21, 2007Technical

  • The TPGi Voice

    For well over a year, several members of the TPGi team and I have been talking about setting up a company blog. The problem is, we have so many things…

    November 20, 2007Technical