#accessibility (539 links)
- Ending the Great H1 Debate | Web Design Blog: Web Design & Innovation in web standards : Viget Labs viget.com · Archived on
According to Cutts, more than one h1 is fine as long as you don't go crazy. Pretty much as expected.
- NVDA – a free, open source screen reader | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
Hadn't come across this one.
- Color Oracle colororacle.cartography.ch
Takes the guesswork out of designing for color blindness by showing you in real time what people with common color vision impairments will see.
- Accessibility Tips accessibilitytips.com
Yahoo folk providing accessibility info.
- jQuery Accessible Tabs - How to make tabs REALLY accessible - web output blog.ginader.de · Archived on
While a lot of Tabs-Scripts claim to be accessible it turns out, most of them are really not.
- MMF - Mobile Accessibility mobileaccessibility.info
The Global Accessibility Reporting Initiative (GARI) project was developed to provide a central information source to learn about accessibility in mobile devices.
- IE 8 still does not resize text sized in pixels | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
"Yes, there is full page zoom (which works much better in IE 8 than in IE 7), but the controls for resizing text only are still there, and they still do not work when pixels or an absolute unit has been used." Still? Doh.
Summary of the Target class action and outcomes.
You can install it as a local ’service’, essentially a web application running on Apache on your local machine. That means you can adjust the Web Developers Toolbar for Firefox to use you local version.
Good analysis of the recent WebAIM screen reader survey. Use <Hn> tags, think hard about accesskeys, use skip links, know your audience.
- RNIB - Statistics - numbers of people with sight problems by age group in the UK rnib.org.uk · Archived on
Includes estimates by age group.
- WebAIM: Screen Reader Survey Results webaim.org
In December 2008 through January 2009, WebAIM conducted a survey of preferences of screen reader users. We received 1121 valid responses to the screen reader survey, which was conducted Dec. 2008 - Jan. 2009. The response was amazing.
- WebAIM: WCAG 2.0 Checklist webaim.org
A simple checklist that presents the principles and techniques of WCAG 2.0 in a more user-friendly, understandable format. The language has been significantly changed and simplified from the official WCAG 2.0 specification to make it more easily tested and verified for web pages.
Via alastc.
This site details all standards & guidelines for developing and delivering products and services for BBC online (bbc.co.uk).
"Some tips on how to configure your development environment for screen reader testing." Although getting a dev to play with a screenreader can lead to a false sense of security; no substitute for proper testing.
"Why we advise against using justified text, with some links to useful background information on this issue." Amazing how many account/pm/client types ask for justified text.
For Ajax-driven pages to have back/forward navigation and to allow bookmarking.
Via daneastwell.
This article is for the suits who care: if you can’t use cutting-edge tools, technologies or techniques, what can you do to ensure that you’re doing all you can for all of your users?
- [DRAFT] Shared Web Experiences: Barriers Common to Mobile Device Users and People with Disabilities w3.org
People with disabilities (using desktop or laptop computers) and people without disabilities who are using mobile devices have similar interaction limitations and they experience similar barriers when interacting with Web sites. There is also significant overlap between the design solutions for both.
When I got to the sIFR method (scalable Inman Flash Replacement), the Windows based screen readers read out the heading twice.
- views from space: Faust: Flash Augmenting Standards blog.space150.com
In Faust, content for Flash is a single source of data: the HTML. You don’t need a new XML structure. The same lists, images, and links you display for users without Flash are consumed for users with Flash.
The new guidelines for UK public sector bodies on ‘Delivering inclusive websites’ are a bewildering blend of the vague with the Draconian.
Some of the guidelines [the RNIB] work to in-house when commissioning accessible advertising.
- hAccessibility redux? - The Web Standards Project webstandards.org
The developers at BBC Radio Labs announced today that they’ll be removing the hCalendar microformat from their programmes listing pages, pending further accessibility testing or the establishment of a more accessible alternative.
- The JavaScript Manifesto - The Web Standards Project webstandards.org
This sums things up quite nicely.
The cheat sheet is from seomoz.org [...] Some of the advice directly contributes to an accessible site (which is something many have noted before), but a couple of items will impact on the experience for people using particular technologies.
- The Miseducation of SEO | Standardzilla : Search, Standards and Accessibility standardzilla.com · Archived on
Another miseducated SEO rears their ugly head and slanders a well-known development technique as well as a high-profile SEO, accusing both of being spam. Better yet [...] Image Replacement has been dubbed “poor man’s cloaking”.
- Google I am hiding my text! | Standardzilla : Search, Standards and Accessibility standardzilla.com · Archived on
- Stop using Ajax! - Opera Developer Community dev.opera.com
Or, at least, think more carefully about when and how you use it.
- WebAnywhere - A screen reader on the go webinsight.cs.washington.edu
A web-based screen reader. It requires no special software to be installed on the client machine and, therefore, enables blind people to access the web from any computer they happen to have access to that has a sound card.
Short answer is no. Thank goodness. "Yes, Google was right. Spam was stuffed into hidden text on my site. They were not complaining about my accessibility technique."
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Webmaster tips for creating accessible, crawlable sites googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
- Creating accessible charts using canvas and jQuery | Filament Group, Inc. filamentgroup.com · Archived on
This article is a proof of concept for visualizing HTML table data with the canvas element.
Ranty but potentially useful basis for discussing the issues faced with all-Flash sites.
The 10th annual ‘Better connected’ review of every UK council website from the local government Society of IT Management (Socitm), published this month, has revealed an alarming picture of falling standards.
"A CSS layout that does not use DIV, FLOAT, CLEAR nor structural HACK!" It uses OLs. This is probably a horrible thing to do in terms of accessibility and semantics. Avoid.
The errata, you will recall, are one group’s opinion of the deficiencies in WCAG 1.0. Your opinion does not have to coincide with ours, but I’d wager there won’t be many areas of disagreement.
- SEO and Accessibility » SlideShare slideshare.net
Developer-focussed, gets to the point.
"Font-based layouts will cause issues for people with visual impairments. [...] In usability testing I’ve seen people get really frustrated with horizontal scrolling. Or when they don’t notice the scrolling, frustrated with trying to do things that sh
In contrast to their apparent universal appeal, [social networking sites] are effectively ‘locking out’ disabled visitors, the majority of whom can’t even register, let alone participate in the on-line communities they wish to join.
Web sites can more efficiently meet both goals when developers understand the significant overlap between making a Web site accessible for a mobile device and for people with disabilities.
The relaunch of JKRowling.com saw LightMaker push the boundaries of accessible Flash. This case study provides an overview of key issues tacked to make the site as accessible as possible.
My personal experience registering for 87 accounts with the top online retailers and offer some tips for registration form design.
- Diabetic retinopathy tiresias.org
Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness in people of working age in the UK
- Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » Generating charts from accessible data tables and vice versa using the Google Charts API wait-till-i.com · Archived on
A small script that converts data tables to charts using the API and a wee bit of JavaScript. Using this script you can take a simple, valid and accessible data table [...] and it gets automatically converted to a pie chart.
- 10 common errors when implementing accessibility webcredible.co.uk
"Web developers attempting to build accessible websites often make the same mistakes time and time again." Good summary.
75 Best Practices for Design of Websites and Intranets, Based on Usability Studies with People Who Use Assistive Technology