#accessibility (539 links)
- Extending Semantics & Accessibility - Learn to Code Advanced HTML & CSS learn.shayhowe.com
Lesson 10 Extending Semantics & Accessibility In this Lesson 10 HTML Share Semantics and accessibility are naturally part of HTML by design, however they are…
- jsx-eslint/eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y github.com
Static AST checker for a11y rules on JSX elements.
- Computer says NO to HTML5 document outline | HTML5 Doctor html5doctor.com
What a brilliant idea! For the longest time HTML5 specified, and advised developers, that it no longer mattered what the number (1 to 6) was in a heading…
As four people who are blind and care deeply about making the web more accessible, we strongly believe user testing should include people with disabilities. But…
- Short note on improving usability of scrollable regions paciellogroup.com
Posted on Wednesday, 3 February 2016 by Steve Faulkner You can make an element scrollable using CSS overflow property, problem is that typically the content…
- Simple inline error message pattern paciellogroup.com
Error messages can be problematic to convey consistently to all users across browsers and assistive technology (AT). Using simple HTML, with a little ARIA…
- Aural UI of HTML elements thepaciellogroup.github.io
How HTML elements are supported by screen readers Typical support patterns of HTML elements by screen readers: Identification of an element by role as the user…
- Soundcloud Icon Buttons a11ywins.tumblr.com
- Thomas Byttebier - The best icon is a text label thomasbyttebier.be
- Accessible Interface Design medium.com
- Web Components punch list paciellogroup.com
Building an interactive accessible website is often thought of as a black art. A look at the learnings from building the Government's website, GOV.UK. I will talk about real world accessibility and practical tips and tools you can use today. Covering the mistakes and pitfalls we made building GOV.UK I will explain how to check to see how you are currently doing, and how accessibility isn't,as scary as you first thought.
- When Do Elements Take The Focus? sitepoint.com
- Practical ARIA Examples heydonworks.com
- Using the HTML5 section element - The Paciello Group Blog blog.paciellogroup.com
The heading is important. If you can’t think of a suitable heading for the content within a section element, there’s a good chance you shouldn’t be using the section element at all. Time to consider a div instead.
- Accessible custom checkboxes and radio buttons | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
- JAWS, IE and Headings in HTML5 | Articles | Accessible Culture accessibleculture.org
- Hacker News | Asking for accessibility gets you nothing but grief. news.ycombinator.com
Fairly depressing.
- On using h1 for all heading levels in HTML5 | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
"You can keep using h1-h6 in HTML5, but you can also choose to use only h1 elements for all headings and rely on the HTML5 outline algorithm to sort out the heading hierarchy. If you do this, however, you should be aware that currently there is very little support for the HTML5 outline in web browsers, screen readers and developer tools." Possibly not ready for production quite yet, then.
Excellent, excellent article.
codepo8: A must read for your web dev teams! > RT @charlesarthur: Why we should support users with no Javascript >> Punkchip http://bit.ly/h55ILx
- Juicy Studio: Colour Contrast and CSS Sprite Maps juicystudio.com
CSS sprite maps improve efficiency by making fewer HTTP requests to the server, but most implementations cause serious problems for users who view content in high contrast mode.
- HTML5 accessibility html5accessibility.com
This site is a resource to provide information about which new HTML5 user interface features are accessibility supported in browsers, making them usable by people who rely upon assistive technology (AT) to use the web.
- How many users have JavaScript disabled? · YDN Blog developer.yahoo.com
While 2% of U.S. visitors may not seem like a lot, keep in mind that over 300 million users visit the Yahoo! homepage each month. That means 6 million users visit each month without the benefit of JavaScript. So even though it’s worth spending your time on the JavaScript-enabled version of the site, there are still a non-trivial amount of users out there who won’t be able to use it. While the percentage of visitors with JavaScript disabled seems like a low number, keep in mind that small percentages of big numbers are also big numbers.
- My First Week with the iPhone | Behind the Curtain behindthecurtain.us
Last Wednesday, my life changed forever. I got an iPhone. I consider it the greatest thing to happen to the blind for a very long time, possibly ever. It offers unparalleled access to properly made applications, and changed my life in twenty-four hours. The iPhone only has one thing holding it back: iTunes. Nevertheless, I have fallen in love.
Usually, objections to this plan [requiring JavaScript] do not equate to predictions that we’re going to screw that up or that it won’t be sufficient; rather, they represent an opinion that requiring Javascript for a web application is an automatic accessibility violation. This might be partly a historical feeling, as some older accessibility standards contained language that said (or could be taken to imply) that in order to be accessible, a site had to work with Javascript turned off. I don’t know what motivated the inclusion of those clauses at the time, but would note that most modern accessibility standards merely say that one’s site must be accessible (regardless of whether or not it uses or requires client-side scripting).
Via paul.irish.
- QuirksBlog: The iPhone obsession quirksmode.org
"The iPhone has become an obsession. If we don’t pay attention, we’ll have a mobile web that only works on the iPhone. And then we’ll have the real mobile web that wasn’t made by us and doesn’t give a shit about web standards and best practices." Overstating things somewhat but still a useful reminder.
- How to Use Link TITLE Attribute Correctly | Search Engine Journal searchenginejournal.com
Useful one to point clients at. "A couple of years ago, Googlers confirmed they did not use TITLE attribute in the algorithm because it was used too seldom. This has changes since then but I still failed to spot any evidence that link TITLE attribute somehow influenced the rankings."
Via alastc.
- We are Colorblind » Patterns for the Color Blind wearecolorblind.com
About 8% of the male population has some sort of color blindness. The color blind have the inability to clearly distinguish different colors of the spectrum, they tend to see colors in a limited range of hues.
- NoSquint :: Add-ons for Firefox addons.mozilla.org
Allows you to adjust the text-only and full-page (both text and images) zoom levels as well as color settings both globally (for all sites) and per site.
- qa-style-sheet - Project Hosting on Google Code code.google.com
The QA style sheet highlights specific HTML problems like use of deprecated elements, inaccessible images, layout tables, empty elements, or styling-related maintenance issues. Theoretically, it is “unobtrusive” in a sense that when everything’s fine it won’t cause any visible changes.
- Festival cstr.ed.ac.uk
Offers a general framework for building speech synthesis systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole it offers full text to speech through a number APIs: from shell level, though a Scheme command interpreter, as a C++ library, from Java, and an Emacs interface. Festival is multi-lingual (currently English (British and American), and Spanish) though English is the most advanced.
- Homepage - Defacto defacto-cms.com
Hosted, accessible CMS solution from Nomensa.
- we are all screen readers now (tecznotes) mike.teczno.com
At some point during the dot-com bust it turned out that the written word was the payload, and regular people started using alternative browsing devices to access text from the web. Arguments about device-independent, semantic markup and graceful degradation suddenly have an additional halo of legitimacy because they affect everyone.
""Accessible Forms using WCAG 2.0" is the first of a series of documents to help web professionals use the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Version 2.0 to develop accessible websites."
- Colour Contrast Analyser :: Firefox Add-ons addons.mozilla.org
Still experimental "A colour contrast analyser that examines the foreground and background colours of text nodes, and provides a report to see if they are correct according to AERT and WCAG's luminosity colour contrast algorithm."
- Usable Accessibility: Making Web Sites Work Well for People with Disabilities :: UXmatters uxmatters.com
The concept of usability often seems to exclude people with disabilities, as though just access is all they are entitled to. What about creating a good user experience for people with disabilities—going beyond making a Web site merely accessible to make it truly usable for them?