Thoughts on “Notes from the future of HTML session at TPAC”
Stinkin’ thinkin’ on HTML @w3c (AKA what i would be saying at #TPAC2015 if I was there) HTML is being discussed, again, at W3C. HTML5 was published as a recommendation…
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THUS SPOKE HTML
For many of us HTML as a language is expressed visually and often implicitly as graphical user interfaces (often dressed in fancy CSS threads). For others it is an aural…
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Notes on use of multiple ARIA role attribute values
The role attribute in HTML can have multiple space separated values :
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Easy content organisation with HTML5
Typically designers and web developers divide web pages into macro content areas (let’s call them regions). Doing an image search for typical web page returns lots of examples of diagrammatic…
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Short note on coding alt text
The other day, in relation to a github comment, I was asked by my friend Mike[tm]Smith “Can alt have line breaks in it or does that do weird things to…
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Short Note on HTML conformance checking
When you check a HTML document, using the W3C HTML conformance checker, to find out whether its code conforms to the rules defined in the HTML specification (and other referenced…
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Anybody can be an A11y Slacker
There are many ways to communicate about accessible web development practices; mailing lists, forums, IRC, articles, twitter, slack and gitter etc. Each has it’s pros and cons. I have been…
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TPGi and Tenon Announce Partnership
PRESS RELEASE Brian Landrigan Director of Sales Marketing TPGi blandrigan@paciellogroup.com +1 603-882-4122 Nashua, NH – July 14, 2015 – TPGi (TPG) and Tenon, LLC today announce a sales and marketing…
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#A11Y Slackers
A ubiquitous issue for people involved in moving the web forward is that there is always too much to do. Identifiying and prioritising tasks is critical. Identifying is fairly easy,…
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Short note on aria-labelledby and aria-describedby
The ARIA attributes aria-labelledby and aria-describedby can be used to provide an accessible name or accessible description for a subset of HTML elements. It is important to note that by…
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aViewer – accessibility inspection tool on Github
TPGi are pleased to announce that, with the support of Google, the aViewer accessibility object inspection tool source code is now available on Github under an open source licence.
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Current Standards Work at W3C
People regularly ask me what I am working on at the W3C, here is a run down of standards/guidance documents I am editing/co-editing, contributing to (note: I am only 1…
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Flipboard – React Canvas Accessibility
Flipboard announced yesterday that they are using HTML5 canvas to improve performance on mobile devices. This has accessibility ramifications.
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HTML5 canvas sub DOM – updated 29th march 2020
All modern browser implement the HTML5 specification’s canvas element fallback concept. This means that the content inside a canvas elements start and end tags is exposed to assistive technology users…
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Emulating failure
HTML has a problem. As implemented in browsers many interactive elements cannot be styled as desired by web developers, or developers as directed by designers, marketing or any of the…
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The Browser Accessibility Tree
The accessibility tree and the DOM tree are parallel structures.
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MAKING THE GUI TALK (1991) by Rich Schwerdtfeger
Seminal how-to article on development of Graphical User Interface (GUI) Screen Readers for Windows OS/2 and the X Windows System.
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Notes on providing alt text for twitter images
NOTE 27/05/16: Twitter iOS and Web UI now provide a method to add alt text to images \o/ I use twitter a lot via the twitter web UI. Often I…
