#accessibility (539 links)
Web authors who believe that they’re being thoughtful by making their ACCESSKEY choices alphabetic [...] Please think again. Using numeric characters is quite accessible enough.
Nomensa investigated the accessibility of websites belonging to the top 30 most popular online retailers, based on visits from UK shoppers.
- UK's top web retailers failing the disabled | The Register theregister.co.uk
Usability agency Nomensa tested the retail websites and found that none fulfilled the most basic accessibility guidelines.
- A List Apart: Articles: Text-Resize Detection alistapart.com
We’ll give you a way to detect your visitors’ initial font size setting—and a way to find out whenever your visitor increases or decreases the font size.
- Accessites.org’s Web Accessibility Articles & News | Accessites.org: Selected Article accessites.org
You may not be aware, unless you’ve read the actual DOCTYPE documents themselves (and frankly, who wants to do that?) that the HTML 4.01 Transitional DOCTYPE tells you to avoid using the HTML 4.01 Transitional DOCTYPE if you can.
- Juicy Studio: Using the title Attribute juicystudio.com
Current user agents provide very poor access to title text information, and what access they do provide is typically inaccessible for people with disabilities.
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- Bruce Lawson’s personal site : Forms: inputting country names brucelawson.co.uk
The most accessible, user-friendly way to receive input that a user incontravertibly knows is to ask the user to type their response into a free-text field, rather than require them to select it.
- Juicy Studio: Fixing Quotes in Internet Explorer juicystudio.com
"Although Internet Explorer recognises the q element, it doesn't render the quotations marks around the quoted text. A CSS solution isn't possible, as Internet Explorer doesn't support the :before and :after pseudo-elements, so this article suggests a scr
"Techniques you can implement to achieve advanced accessibility, beyond the guidelines." Nothing radical
- Amberlight - User Centred Research and Design Services amber-light.co.uk
London based Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Consultancy who provide user-centred research and design services to clients and partners in the UK and internationally.
Portable Document Format (PDF) accessibllity is not a new topic, it is well understood and explained by certain experts. However, the implications are universally unknown by organisations.
- Google Accessible Search labs.google.com
"Accessible Web Search for the Visually Challenged." Hurrah!
- Accessites.org’s Web Accessibility Articles & News | Accessites.org: Selected Article accessites.org
A simple, but effective way to give an extreme visual example to show the editors that something has gone horribly wrong
Allows JavaScript to check if accessibility features exist on the user’s computer by using a hidden (1 pixel x 1 pixel) Flash application.
- DOM Scripting: FlashAid domscripting.com
Some way to make use of Flash to detect a screen reader and pass on that information to JavaScript.
- RNIB clear print guidelines rnib.org.uk
Guidelines on designing printed information that is accessible to people with sight problems.
AJAX and its kin are empowering developers, but with great power comes great responsibility.
The key is to use scripting to add value for those who can take advantage of it without causing problems for those who, for whatever reason, cannot.
- QnECMS Content Mangement System | Accessible Content Management System: Quick and Easy (QnECMS) qnecms.co.uk
Quick & Easy Accessible CMS, Weblog and Podcasting Software.
We design, manage and deliver profitable user experiences.
Bad ideas that get in the minds of standards-based developers
- Juicy Studio: Making Ajax Work with Screen Readers juicystudio.com
The accessibility community is understandably concerned about the accessibility of client-side scripting, in particular using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) to produce Rich Internet Applications.
a group of developers, led by Joe Clark, that will publish corrections for, and extensions to, existing standards for Web accessibility. Our first area of interest is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, though we have not ruled out publishing er
- A List Apart: Articles: To Hell with WCAG 2 alistapart.com
"Where WCAG 2 breaks down is in the big stuff. Curiously, though, and perhaps due to meticulous editing over the years, the big stuff is well camouflaged and, to an uninformed reader, WCAG 2 seems reasonable. It isn’t, and you as a working standards-com
- ITenables Forum - Development of digital television 80.168.137.82
Does anyone know how the development of digital TV will affect the reception of sign language, sub-titling, and audio description services for deaf people and visually impaired viwers respectively?
This report examines the user needs of older and disabled people in relation to digital TV and provides solutions that would make digital TV equipment more suitable and usable for them.
- Accessites.org’s Web Accessibility Articles & News | Accessites.org: Selected Article accessites.org
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- BBC - My Web My Way - Homepage bbc.co.uk
Do you need help in making the web easier to use? This site explains the many ways you can change your browser, computer, keyboard and mouse settings to make the web more accessible for you.
- Accessibility statements and site viewing options | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com · Archived on
Glaucoma Research Foundation has a really well-written accessibility statement.
- Opera Mini™ for Mobile opera.com
A live demo of Opera Mini that functions exactly like it would when installed on a handset. Be advised that clicking on the screen does not work, instead use the phone's keypad.
- MODx Content Management System | Home modxcms.com
An open source PHP Application Framework
Ajax accessibility. I knew nothing about it, so I ran some user tests and presented original research.
"For all of the excitement and hype, still very little has been said on the subject of AJAX and accessibility.
"Although many of us web professionals just 'kinda know' that AJAX is bad for web accessibility, when pushed many would not be able to say exactly why or how certain screen readers cope with content that's been changed using AJAX (or using DOM Scripting m
- Bruce Lawson’s personal site : New windows in xhtml strict brucelawson.co.uk
Marked “considered harmful” [...] the comments are good, though
- Accessify Forum: Off-site links. Is rel="external" useful? accessifyforum.com
"Does the attribute/value set rel="external" provide a useful addition to navigation for those who might make use of other instances of the rel attribute? Or is it simply a case that it uses the rel convention without actually adding anything substantial
Top 5 reasons why you should beware of opening links in a new window.
When using PC-native file formats such as PDF or spreadsheets, users feel like they're interacting with a PC application. Because users are no longer browsing a website, they shouldn't be given a browser UI.
- Semantics and design | And all that Malarkey stuffandnonsense.co.uk
There is a danger of adversly effecting semantics through incorrect use of CSS.
- Web Accessibility in UK Small Businesses andyhiggs.co.uk
The dissertation approaches some key accessibility questions in the UK; do small businesses know that they are expected to provide accessibility and are they prepared to bite the bullet and shell out for an upgrade?