TPGi meetup – Brighton Thursday 13th
A few of us from TPGi will be gathering in Brighton next week for our annual Tech Team Meetup. It seems too good an opportunity to miss hosting a meetup,…
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What does accessibility supported mean?
With the recent news that Microsoft Edge now has 100% accessibility support for HTML5, this post looks at what “accessibility supported” means, and where it fits into the bigger accessibility…
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Announcing the Teach Access Tutorial
TPGi and our peers at Teach Access are very excited to announce the Teach Access Tutorial. This tutorial provides a set of hands-on coding exercises and reference material for accessibility best…
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CSUN 2016 roundup
We had another great year at CSUN, the annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference, which is held in San Diego. It’s always good to meet up with the…
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Masterplanning the Digital Campus to Support Learners with Disabilities
Organizations that deliver online learning must be strategic and holistic in their accessibility approach, ensuring all necessary structures are in place to support accessible and equitable experiences for learners with disabilities. Responsibility for accessibility must be distributed appropriately across all stakeholder groups. By adopting stewardship activities common in physical campuses, a more strategic approach can be applied to the digital campus. Masterplanning the digital campus means addressing near-term activities with a long view—one that takes into account the underlying infrastructure as well as the surface-level structures where people engage more directly in the learning process. This paper presents foundational activities around policy, process, programs, and practice that are necessary to support the creation of a sustainable, accessible online learning environment.
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The CSUN 2016 UXathon
Here’s your chance to help define what is meant by an accessible web experience! We’re interested in finding out more about how some common user interface design patterns can be…
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Short note on use of alt=”” and the title attribute
A discussion occured on A11ySlackers gitter channel last evening about whether use of the following markup pattern was a WCAG 2.0 failure: <img src=”a.gif” alt=”” title=”some text”>
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The state of hidden content support in 2016
I have reported previously on support in browsers and screen readers (SR) for aria-hidden and the HTML5 hidden attribute. The last time was 2 years ago, the orginal article published…
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Simple inline error message pattern
Error messages can be problematic to convey consistently to all users across browsers and assistive technology (AT). Using simple HTML, with a little ARIA polyfil magic if you want to…
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Stepping into Accessibilities’ Shoes
At Interactive Accessibility we have a dedicated team that works hard to produce the best services possible for our clients. Most of our time is spent in “head down” work…
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TPGi folks – selected articles
Recent articles by people of TPG:
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Thoughts on “Notes from the future of HTML session at TPAC”
Stinkin’ thinkin’ on HTML @w3c (AKA what i would be saying at #TPAC2015 if I was there) HTML is being discussed, again, at W3C. HTML5 was published as a recommendation…
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Notes on use of multiple ARIA role attribute values
The role attribute in HTML can have multiple space separated values :
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Accessibility testing with Android Talkback
Android has a number of accessibility features that are directly affected by how you design and build your website or application. These include: Talkback – a screen reader that uses…
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Short note on coding alt text
The other day, in relation to a github comment, I was asked by my friend Mike[tm]Smith “Can alt have line breaks in it or does that do weird things to…
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Accessibility Abbreviations
Updated: May 28, 2024 Abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms Related to accessibility and disability Related to organizations, departments and agencies Related to legislation, regulations, and standards All relate to USA unless…
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Short Note on HTML conformance checking
When you check a HTML document, using the W3C HTML conformance checker, to find out whether its code conforms to the rules defined in the HTML specification (and other referenced…
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Anybody can be an A11y Slacker
There are many ways to communicate about accessible web development practices; mailing lists, forums, IRC, articles, twitter, slack and gitter etc. Each has it’s pros and cons. I have been…