#accessibility (539 links)
- Why Web Accessibility Makes Sense » Introduction » Accessites.org » Powered by AutoRun accessites.org
This presentation will help you see the value of web accessibility and why it makes sense for you, as a web developer, and why it is a must-have for your clients.
RoboBraille automates the translation of text documents into Braille and speech. The service is available free of charge to all non-commercial users.
Here’s a detailed overview of the process we use for carrying out multiple assessments for projects like Better Connected, with some of the background about how we developed this process.
Neither intranets nor extranets are offered to the general public and if software is a product then it's not a service – so you might think they're all irrelevant to the DDA. Not so.
- Web Accessibility Validation Tool, Check Accessibility Online by Truwex checkwebsite.erigami.com
Truwex manages website compliance with web accessibility, online privacy, quality standards.
- BBC | Access 2.0 bbc.co.uk
The closing date for tenders to run the “targeted help” scheme to help the elderly and disabled in the switchover to Digital TV from analogue has now passed.
- No, your website ISN'T AAA accessible! - O'Reilly XML Blog oreillynet.com
If you think your website is [AAA compliant], then I’m sorry to tell you - you’re almost certainly wrong.
- Web Usability - Source Order, Skip links and Structural labels usability.com.au
Is page source order important to screen reader users?
This article introduces the basics of cognitive psychology around colour and patterns -- what you need to know, and how it affects Web design in a nutshell.
The implications of having two camps for accessibility
- The Guild of Accessible Web Designers | Introduction to WCAG AA self-study training course gawds.org · Archived on
The aim of this course is to introduce you to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Priority 1 and Priority 2 checkpoints.
So just what is a decorative image? It seems to me that one person’s eye candy is another person’s emotional link to a website.
- Accessites.org » Dealing with Acronyms & Abbreviations accessites.org
For quite some time the methodologies of how best to deal with acronyms and abbreviations on the web have been discussed by developers the world over. We seek the best practices and hope to serve all of our visitors with something of use.
- Juicy Studio: Improving Ajax applications for JAWS users juicystudio.com
" Popular screen readers use a virtual buffer to allow users to interact with web content. This article uncovers undocumented behaviour in JAWS 7.1 and later, which allows web developers to build Ajax applications that update the virtual buffer without a
- Seven accessibility mistakes you don't want to make | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
In a two-part article (Seven Accessibility Mistakes (Part 1), Seven Accessibility Mistakes (Part 2)) published on Digital Web Magazine, Chris Heilmann explains some accessibility mistakes he has encountered and how Web developers can avoid them.
- Accessites.org’s Web Accessibility Articles & News | Accessites.org: Selected Article accessites.org
Nice intro to accessibility.
This site contains information and design tools. They may not show you exactly what dichromats see, but will help you to understand which colours are easily confused.
There needs to be another term for font-based layouts. Also, there is a mistaken assumption about the accessibility of font-based layouts.
- A List Apart: Articles: Making Compact Forms More Accessible alistapart.com
Forms pose a series of usability and accessibility challenges, many of which are made more complex when you need to build a form to fit into a small space.
A web-based WYSIWYM editor.
- Forget WYSIWYG editors - use WYSIWYM instead | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
There is another kind of editor that is better suited than WYSIWYG for content-driven, client-edited sites - the WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) editor.
- Functional Accessibility Evaluator: Run FAE fae.cita.uiuc.edu
Use this form to evaluate the functional accessibility of a single Web page.
- Accessibility Extensions for Mozilla/Firefox: Announcements firefox.cita.uiuc.edu
"Makes it easier for people with disabilities to view and navigate web content. A toolbar provides easy access to navigation, styling, and keyboard enhancement functionality. Developers can use the extension to check their structural markup from the brows
UI expert Robert Hoekman Jr shows you how to educate your visitors about the features of contemporary sites and web apps through instructive design.
- Nidahas » Forms markup and CSS - Revisited nidahas.com
A flexible, semantically correct, and dare I say, accessible template to which such features could be readily applied.
- Public bodies face disability law change | The Register theregister.co.uk
The new Disability Equality Duty (DED) places a legal obligation on public bodies to consider the needs of the disabled when planning services.
- Click here and other meaningless link phrases | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
"One of those things that you have to keep educating clients about: writing good and informative link phrases." About 5 or 6 times a day, normally.
Summary of accessibility legislation by country.
Choose LEGEND text that is:Concise: between 1 and 6 words; Relevant: to every single form field in the FIELDSET; Seamless: in that the words chosen for the LEGEND should make sense when joined to each label phrase.
- Joe Clark Micropatronage joeclark.org
I’m appealing to supporters to donate small amounts to support me while I start up a research project.
- Juicy Studio: Firefox 2.0 and Access Keys juicystudio.com
"Firefox 2.0 uses Shift+Alt as the keystroke combination to invoke access keys. On the surface, this appears to be a great idea, as it avoids clashing with the shortcut keys used for the browser. Unfortunately, the new behaviour has been poorly implemente
- Accessibility statements or Site help pages? | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
Are we supposed to stop providing them now? No, not really, but perhaps we should replace them with something better.
How useful accessibility pages provided on a selection of UK Web sites were to users - in particular older people without significant impairments, but who may soon benefit from accessibility information.
- Caution! Access keys broken in Firefox 2.0 on the PC - Web Content Management Software by Hannon Hill hannonhill.com · Archived on
"Firefox 2.0 doesn't actually break access keys, as was originally thought. Rather, the Firefox developers [...] decided to change access keys from Alt plus the number/letter to Alt plus Shift plus the number/letter." Gee, thanks.
- Blogger - Can I get in please? - The Web Standards Project webstandards.org
How Blogger blocks users from getting past the front door when the browser is JavaScript-capable but is sitting behind script blocking firewalls - and how it’s not alone in making this mistake.
Accessible, pretty forms developed by Philip Howard
“Apple’s system preference pane for Universal Access: takes into account the probability that users needing assistance [...] would most likely appreciate larger, bolder text on that pref panel.” Might be nice to do for accessibility statements...
"You see a lot of links on sites which are for “Accessibility”, to provide both help for those with accessibility issues, and state what levels of accessibility the site is aiming for. However, I believe that this content should be split up between tw
"After personally observing users with disabilities interacting with websites in unexpected ways, I have come to believe strongly in the value of user research—and to suspect that we really don’t know quite as much about real-world accessibility as we
- niqui merret » Blog Archive » Visit with the RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind) niquimerret.com
Great phrase: "We run automated tests and use cleaver scripts that allow us to get compliant but all we get is Check-box Accessibility (compliant but not usable)."
- isolani - Web Accessibility: Accessibility in Trouble isolani.co.uk
Its clear that the web accessibility community has been on a downward spiral for over a year now, but its not entirely clear why.
"Trenton Moss wrote up his thoughts on the future of accessibility (via Accessibility Blog), and the general accessibility implications of some new technologies. The points in the main section of the article are good, but I don’t think they provide suff
- The future of web accessibility webcredible.co.uk
It's been seven years since the W3C released the first version of the web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG 1.0). Since then, accessibility has slowly but surely turned up on the radar of web managers in most large organisations.
- CSS Validator colour warnings are not errors | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
t’s quite common for CSS authors to think that the warnings the CSS Validator reports are errors [...] Those particular warnings are there for accessibility reasons and to remind you that you need to take care when specifying colours.
I’ve rarely seen the TABINDEX attribute applied without it creating more problems than it solves.
- The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web - a practical guide to web typography webtypography.net
A practical guide to web typography