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CSS Editor bookmarklet for IE
For times when CSS styles need to be tested, on the fly, in Internet Explorer, the CSS editor bookmarklet can come in handy. It was originally developed from the test styles bookmarklet by Jesse...
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Providing Context for Ambiguous Link Phrases
It’s not unusual to stumble upon ambiguous link phrases on web pages (phrases such as, “Click here”, “More”, and so on). Some screen readers allow users to gather a list of links from a page, but these...
View ArticlePractical accessibility tips
Mike Davies from Yahoo Europe has started a new blog providing practical accessibility tips. It’s called accessibilitytips.com and already contains a number of useful tips on how to develop accessible...
View ArticleARIA Slider, Part 2
In my previous post I gave an example for a very minimalistic ARIA slider, with the intention of demonstrating how simple it is to add ARIA using only a few attributes. I know there are some developers...
View ArticleCSS, HTML, ARIA, browsers, assistive technology and interoperability
A number of issues are being debated in accessibility circles at the moment. These primarily revolve around how browsers and assistive technology interpret and represent HTML semantics via...
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...
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What’s ‘large text’ in WCAG 2.0 parlance?
I put together an example page, mainly for my own use, providing some examples of what in WCAG 2.0 terms is considered large and small text. WCAG 2.0 provides the font measurements in terms of points,...
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HTML5 Accessibility Chops: ARIA role=alert browser support
ARIA role=alert is supported across modern browsers and assistive technology, but implementation in browsers differ, which can lead to role=alert appearing to be unsupported. role=alert what does it...
View ArticleNotes on accessible CSS image sprites
The issue of CSS image sprites has been raised again on the Web Accessibility Initiative Interest Group mailing list. Here is the advice we provide on the issue: CSS image sprite issues A default HTML...
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