The Viking and the Lumberjack Go Looking for the 508 Refresh
The ham-fisted Accessibility Power Duo are back in another episode of the Viking and the Lumberjack. This time they go off in search of the legendary 508 Refresh.
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Slow Week in Web Standards
Scanning through my twitter timeline, realized that it had been another week in web standards devoid of progress, passion and humour…
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HTML5 Accessibility analysis
HTML5Accessibility.com was updated last week to include the latest results for HTML5 accessibility support in Windows browsers. What do these results mean?
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Design like we give a damn! Accessibility @W3C
Lots of things happened at the W3C TPAC 2104 conference. It was a busy week in web standards.
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W3C TPAC 2014 – notes and souvenirs
Leonie Watson and I attended the W3C Technical Plenary (TPAC) last week. It was a big one; including W3C’s 20th anniversary and HTML5 became a W3C Recommendation. I have collated…
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Web Accessibility Testing Tools – updated
Here at TPG Interactive (TPGi) we have a technical web accessibility testing process which does not involve the use of automated testing tools. The technical audit results we provide to…
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Rough Guide: browsers, operating systems and screen reader support – Updated 23/06/2017
Practical screen reader support by browser and OS (updated 23/06/2017) When testing aspects of support for new HTML5, WAI-ARIA features and HTML features in general, I often test browsers that…
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Notes on fixing incorrect table structure using ARIA
Updated 18/08/2020 Replaced use of role grid/gridcell with table/cell as these roles are now supported. Notes: Use with caution for static table fixes: The role=table and role=cell map to the…
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ARIA in HTML – there goes the neighborhood
Will HTML5 make the use of WAI-ARIA in HTML redundant? the short answer is definitely not. There are many ARIA roles and properties that are not provided by native elements…
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Accessibility in a Web Components World at MakingWeb
Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting at the 2nd MakingWeb conference in Norway, I talked about web components.
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Web Components punch list
Considerations for web component and custom control design:
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Notes on notes (of smart people) about web components
The Extensible Web Summit happened in Berlin yesterday. This prompted written words from some big thinkers and doers. Jeremy Keith wrote a piece on Web Components followed up by a…
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When the refresh comes
The Section 508 Refresh contains a provision that places responsibility on assistive technology vendors to make use of accessibility information made available via platform accessibility APIs. I suggest this is…
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What ARIA does not do
ARIA is a set of attributes that can be added to HTML elements (and other markup languages) to communicate accessibility role, state, name and properties which are exposed by browsers…
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The Viking and the Lumberjack
Does humor belong in accessibility? It certainly does, especially when it involves Karl “The Viking” Groves and Billy “The Lumberjack” Gregory putting the A into Accessibility!
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filing bugs
One of the ways to get things fixed in browsers, or at least understand why things aren’t/won’t be fixed, is to file a bug. I spend a fair…
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HTML5 accessibility implementation support in browsers
I have been testing and tracking browser accessibility implementation support for a range of new HTML features since 2010. Data can be found on HTML5accessibility.com. Over the last week I…
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aria-labelledby and aria-describedby support in popular Windows browsers
Back in 2010 I filed a bug on Internet Explorer about its lack of support for exposing the calculated values of aria-labelledby and aria-describedby in the MSAA accessibility API. After…
