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 HTML5 elements that map to landmark roles. This has lead to…
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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 serves a very specific purpose, for a very specific audience.
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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 the Assistive Technology Act Program for Oklahoma. The conference organizer, Rob…
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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 managers learn the skills and knowledge needed to ensure accessibility is…
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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 misused and thrust on users in a manner that interrupts their…
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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 ARIA. But when ARIA is hard-coded into HTML it can have…
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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 that did not involve a computer. As you can see in…
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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 Know about Accessibility I Learned from Stack Overflow. There were, as…
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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 for people to modify their text styles according to their needs….
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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, Texas. In addition to taking part in many of the sessions…
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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 the cognitive abilities any of us have at any given moment….
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Short note on being busy
The aria-busy attribute, when set to true is supposed to provide a hint to screen readers that the content within the subtree of the element it is on is being…
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There’s more to performance than meets the eye: DeltaV
DeltaV is a conference that “redefines web performance”. It was held for the first time in London, and I was asked to give a talk about accessibility and web performance.
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Technologic (Human after all): Accessible By Design
Accessible By Design is a new conference, organised by Indiana University, and hosted in the beautiful town of Bloomington. It brought together people involved in all aspects of web development,…
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EU Directive on the Accessibility of Public Sector Websites and Mobile Applications
The European Union (EU) Directive on the Accessibility of Websites and Mobile Applications requires EU member states to make sure their websites and mobile apps meet common accessibility standards. The…
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TPGi at the W3C Web of Things Plugfest, March 2018
I recently attended the Spring 2018 edition of the W3C Web of Things (WoT) PlugFest in Prague, the Czech Republic (or Czechia, if you will). This event formed part of…
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Detangling Complex Components: Funka 2018
I recently had the pleasure of presenting at the 2018 Funka Accessibility Days in Stockholm, Sweden and what an absolutely amazing time I had. The conference, the people and the…
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Short note on accommodating the users display preferences on iOS
A characteristic of thoughtful, inclusive, design is to give control to users to interact with content in their preferred way.