Weblog tag: accessibility
I've just done my Building Better Webapps presentation at the Spring Experience in Miami. I it went pretty well, as far as I can tell, but I realised that there were a whole bunch of links I wanted to...
Firstly, I'd like to say a big 'well done' to Ryan and Gill Carson for organising the workshop. Everything went swimmingly! I did have a little too much coffee though and remained skittishly...
Carson Workshops have a few good things coming up... The first I heard about was Malarkey's CSS for Designers course with Molly Holzschlag on the 17th Nov, here in London. Then I got an email this...
A few weeks back I emailed Bob Easton of Access Matters to suggest that he post a quiz about javascript support in screenreaders. Bob got back to me quick-as-a-flash to say that James Brothercake had...
I had a slightly drunken conversation with a really really good Flash chap a few months back,who told me that Flash could be made extremely accessible... If you get right down into the bowels of the...
Bob Easton over at Access Matters has written up the results of another of his fantastic quizzes, testing whether screen readers really do benefit from good semantic markup and CSS for layout. As test...
Unobtrusive Javascript is the old big thing. AJAX is the new big thing. Both are BIG right now. But a rather crucial question seems to have been missed... How do the various accessibility devices...
Bob Easton has launched a new blog called Access Matters, devoted to discussing best practice in accessibility. He's kicked things off with a subject close to my heart: ALT text for custom list...
I've not played this properly yet but ICS' UA-Chess game looks like it could be pretty interesting. It's been designed to work with Microsoft's IE Speech Add-on along with a host of other...
I use Webbie when I need to test pages in a text browser but I'd never bothered to read it's website before. After an overzealous cleanup of my computer I had to go and redownload it last night and in...
Christ, business.gov.uk got a commendation at the BIMA 2004 awards in the Best usability or accessibility category and I had no idea! Great stuff. That's to add to the IVCA gold in the Websites...
I've just spotted the DRC's The Web Access and Inclusion for Disabled People article, which makes for some pretty interesting reading. I've only had time to scan it but a couple of things jumped out...
It's the example source code bit that makes this Accessible and usable forms article stand out for me. How many times have I re-written search form html? Many many many times. Yes, I recycle some of...
This is an absolutely brilliant article: Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites: Observing Users who Work with Screen Readers. It provides some fantastic insights into how people actually use...
I haven't had a chance to read through too much of this yet but the BTexact Safe Colours site appears to contain a wealth of information on the use of colour on the web and it's relationship to...
456 Berea Street have written up what appears to be the definitive guide to marking up data tables. Luckily for me I've never been lumbered with the dubious honour of coding massive tables but I...
I came across MIT's Web Accessibility Guidelines while I was looking for information on colour contrast earlier on and I was struck by one of their 'Audience for Accessibility' entries: 'Technology or...
I was quite excited about the $80,000 of fines that were issued by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to Ramada and Priceline for the inaccessibility of their websites. It seemed like things were...
The Future of Accesskeys from Derek Featherstone of WATS.ca makes for some interesting reading... I decided a while ago that accesskeys were poorly implemented - I approve of the UK government's...
On the day the DDA ammends come into full effect here in the UK it seems fitting to post an accessibility link... This one's a little obtuse but yesterday I was asked if I knew of any good website...
It looks like accessibility is about to hit the news again, with New York State Attourney Eliot Spitzer announcing settlements with two major travel web sites. He has ruled that ramada.com and...
Dynamic page elements - cloak and dagger web design is a great summary of the current state of javascript on the web... Where did it come from? What is DHTML good for? When should you use it? And...
Flash, DHTML Menus and Accessibility explains the use of the much-neglected wmode property of Flash movies. Turns out that it can be used to hide decorative movies from readers as well as allow the...
These came up on CSS-D today and I thought it might be worth gathering these Image Replacement Methods together into one place. So which is best? Not sure. Accessible I, Accessible I Revised,...
The National Institute for the Blind has announced the shortlist for it's annual award for accessiblity. It's well worth looking through the entries to see how people are applying accessibility in the...
