Enough with the role-play—let’s get back to the basics
Having read Steve Faulkner’s post a short while ago about the often-questionable use of roles in HTML when a more suitable native HTML element would be far better, I was…
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Seeing the wood for the trees: demystifying markup in 2021
Warning: This post contains minor low-grade explicit language. Those easily offended may wish to turn away now. Although, that said, if the word ‘crap’ offends you more than the reason…
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How To Make Publishing Platforms More Accessible (Part 1)
I admit that I have been guilty of a lot of accessibility bad practices in the past, both as a freelancer and while working for agencies. Being a designer who…
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Headings & Accessibility
People who are new to accessibility may be unaware of the way that headings can help readers. They help “chunk” and label groups of related content. And people who use…
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A TPGi Halloween special: the horrors lurking in your HTML
It’s the time of year when many of us are spending our days pigging out on bite-sized candies and settling in for a marathon of our favorite horror films….
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What does accessibility supported mean?
With the recent news that Microsoft Edge now has 100% accessibility support for HTML5, this post looks at what “accessibility supported” means, and where it fits into the bigger accessibility…
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Using the HTML
langattributeWhat do an American actor, a British sitcom character and an HTML attribute have in common? If you’ve ever watched Mary Poppins and winced at Dick Van Dyke’s attempt at…
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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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#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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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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Web Components punch list
Considerations for web component and custom control design:
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Short note on alt in HTML
It is no longer a WCAG 2.0 conformance failure to have an <img> without an alt attribute, as long as the img element has an accessible name provided using another…
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Notes on Guidelines For Speech accessible HTML for Dragon NaturallySpeaking
In a recent tweet Jared Smith linked to Guidelines For Speech accessible HTML for Dragon NaturallySpeaking (PDF) A ‘White Paper’ published in 2009 by Nuance containing ‘guidance’ on how to…
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Pro HTML5 Accessibility – review
A new book Pro HTML5 Accessibility by Joshue O’connor.
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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…
