US Access Board to Hold Technology Listening Sessions in Chicago
Received e-mail from Tim Creagan of the US Access Board regarding the following special event. Encourage all Chicago-based accessibility and disability friends to participate: Disability and...
View ArticleUsing WAI ARIA Landmark Roles – updated
Refer to Using WAI-ARIA Landmarks – 2013 Ukranian translation of Using WAI-ARIA Landmarks 2011 by Vlad Brown.
View ArticleUsing the HTML title attribute – Updated Dec 2012
tl;dr If you want to hide content from mobile and tablet users as well as assistive tech users and keyboard only users, use the title attribute. The details The HTML title attribute is problematic. It...
View ArticleHTML5 Accessibility Challenges
It has been claimed that HTML5 will do a lot to improve the accessibility of web content and web based applications. In theory this is true. The introduction of new form controls in HTML5 is promising,...
View ArticleHTML5 Accessibility Chops: ARIA & validation
I tweeted the other day, suggesting people switch to the HTML5 doctype as the use of ARIA is conforming in HTML5. As things stand, if ARIA roles, states and properties are used on HTML elements with a...
View ArticleBrief history of browser accessibility support
The development of a ‘Brief history of browser accessibility support‘ was prompted by Google’s Evolution of the Web interactive infographic. I was dazzled by its coolness, but noticed that amongst all...
View ArticleHTML5 semantics and accessibility
This is a comment I made on the article Pursuing Semantic Value The author requested that I post it separately, so I have. Stating the obvious Semantics are not just about accessibility, accessibility...
View ArticleHTML5 Accessibility Chops: using nested figure elements
If you have a number of related images (or other content) with caption text, you can use nested figure elements to associate both a group caption and an individual caption to each instance using the...
View ArticleHow YOU can join the W3C HTML5 Working Group in 4 easy steps
A great new initiative was launched recently: Move the Web Forward, which encourages developers to get involved in standards development. So I though it opportune to update and expand upon a how to by...
View ArticleOn joining the HTML editors team
I am honoured and excited to say I am now a member of the W3C HTML editors team. Joining Robin, Erika, Silvia, Ted and Travis to work on continuing the development of HTML. What does this mean? In...
View ArticleThe HTML5 Document Outline
Is a concept that lives in the HTML specification, but is essentially a fiction in the real world. It is a fiction because user agents have not implemented it and there is no indication that any will....
View ArticleHTML5 Accessibility Chops: hidden and aria-hidden support on the UP!
At the start of 2012 I published results on the state of HTML5 hidden attribute support and aria-hidden attribute support. Based on the results, advice was provided on the best methods to hide content...
View ArticleGlobal Considerations in Creating an Organizational Web Accessibility Policy
TPG’s Accessible User Experience team recently did some work for a client exploring legislation and standards on digital accessibility in selected countries around the world, and their impact on...
View ArticleTPG at the W3C Web of Things Plugfest, March 2018
I recently attended the Spring 2018 edition of the W3C Web of Things (WoT) PlugFest in Prague, the Czech Republic (or Czechia, if you will). This event formed part of the wider 2018 W3C Web of Things...
View ArticleEU Directive on the Accessibility of Public Sector Websites and Mobile...
The European Union (EU) Directive on the Accessibility of Websites and Mobile Applications requires EU member states to make sure their websites and mobile apps meet common accessibility standards. The...
View ArticleShort note on being busy
The aria-busy attribute, when set to true is supposed to provide a hint to screen readers that the content within the subtree of the element it is on is being updated and should not be announced....
View ArticleWeb Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1
This week (5 June 2018) saw the release of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 as a W3C recommendation – meaning that the working group (which, among many others, included members from...
View ArticleShort note on scoping mechanisms
In 2 recent articles I have illustrated why the scope attribute is not needed on data tables with one row or column of th elements, or data tables with 1 row and column of th elements (first row and...
View ArticleShort note: The abbreviation appreciation society
The HTML <abbr> element is deceptively familiar and attractive, its been around forever (1999) and thus people assume that it does what it does and does it well. Nothing much changed over the...
View ArticleHow do You Test Success Criterion 1.3.5 on Mobile Applications?
Updated 13th May 2019 Here at TPG we have been asking this question and been working hard to fully understand this Success Criterion and provide a feasible solution. This has of course led to several...
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