#accessibility (449 links)
- Why "Click here" is bad linking practice cs.tut.fi
"Web pages often contain links like "Click here" or just "here". This document explains why such usage is bad practice, especially for accessibility reasons."
Web 2.0 applications often have accessibility and usability problems because of the limitations of (X)HTML. The W3C’s standards draft for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) addresses those limitations.
- Lame excuses for not being a Web professional | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
If you do like rants and have an interest in creating websites that work for as many people as possible, you might enjoy this.
This article will first introduce persistent UI pitfalls of the 1990s, then outline the benefits of Web standards-based Web site development.
- Building Accessible Web Applications paciellogroup.com
- Fire Vox: A Screen Reading Extension for Firefox firevox.clcworld.net
An open source, freely available talking browser extension for the Firefox web browser. Think of it as a screen reader that is designed especially for Firefox.
- f berriman / blog fberriman.com
Last Monday I had the opportunity to visit the Test Partners, after an invite by Steve Green, to attend an afternoon of screen reader demonstration. I’m exceptionally glad I went
- Juicy Studio: Choosing an Accessible CMS juicystudio.com
How do you go about choosing an accessible content management system (CMS)? What are the main criteria for success? And how to ensure ease of use for authors including screen reader users?
"This tutorial will show that, with the right thought, pop-up windows can be used without upsetting anyone - particularly the person browsing your site." Be good to see a jQuery version...
- IE 7 does not resize text sized in pixels | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
It partly compensates for that by allowing the user to scale/zoom the entire page, including images (which quickly leads to massive horizontal scrolling because of its bad implementation).
- Why Web Accessibility Makes Sense » Introduction » Accessites.org » Powered by AutoRun accessites.org
This presentation will help you see the value of web accessibility and why it makes sense for you, as a web developer, and why it is a must-have for your clients.
- RoboBraille - Braille and Speech Through Email robobraille.org
RoboBraille automates the translation of text documents into Braille and speech. The service is available free of charge to all non-commercial users.
Here’s a detailed overview of the process we use for carrying out multiple assessments for projects like Better Connected, with some of the background about how we developed this process.
Neither intranets nor extranets are offered to the general public and if software is a product then it's not a service – so you might think they're all irrelevant to the DDA. Not so.
- Web Accessibility Validation Tool, Check Accessibility Online by Truwex checkwebsite.erigami.com
Truwex manages website compliance with web accessibility, online privacy, quality standards.
- BBC | Access 2.0 bbc.co.uk
The closing date for tenders to run the “targeted help” scheme to help the elderly and disabled in the switchover to Digital TV from analogue has now passed.
- No, your website ISN'T AAA accessible! - O'Reilly XML Blog oreillynet.com
If you think your website is [AAA compliant], then I’m sorry to tell you - you’re almost certainly wrong.
- Web Usability - Source Order, Skip links and Structural labels usability.com.au
Is page source order important to screen reader users?
This article introduces the basics of cognitive psychology around colour and patterns -- what you need to know, and how it affects Web design in a nutshell.
The implications of having two camps for accessibility
- The Guild of Accessible Web Designers | Introduction to WCAG AA self-study training course gawds.org
The aim of this course is to introduce you to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Priority 1 and Priority 2 checkpoints.
So just what is a decorative image? It seems to me that one person’s eye candy is another person’s emotional link to a website.
- Accessites.org » Dealing with Acronyms & Abbreviations accessites.org
For quite some time the methodologies of how best to deal with acronyms and abbreviations on the web have been discussed by developers the world over. We seek the best practices and hope to serve all of our visitors with something of use.
- Juicy Studio: Improving Ajax applications for JAWS users juicystudio.com
" Popular screen readers use a virtual buffer to allow users to interact with web content. This article uncovers undocumented behaviour in JAWS 7.1 and later, which allows web developers to build Ajax applications that update the virtual buffer without a
- Seven accessibility mistakes you don't want to make | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
In a two-part article (Seven Accessibility Mistakes (Part 1), Seven Accessibility Mistakes (Part 2)) published on Digital Web Magazine, Chris Heilmann explains some accessibility mistakes he has encountered and how Web developers can avoid them.
- User experience design resources (Dey Alexander Consulting) deyalexander.com.au
- Accessites.org’s Web Accessibility Articles & News | Accessites.org: Selected Article accessites.org
Nice intro to accessibility.
This site contains information and design tools. They may not show you exactly what dichromats see, but will help you to understand which colours are easily confused.
- Elastic layout - wrong term? » AlastairC alastairc.ac
There needs to be another term for font-based layouts. Also, there is a mistaken assumption about the accessibility of font-based layouts.
- A List Apart: Articles: Making Compact Forms More Accessible alistapart.com
Forms pose a series of usability and accessibility challenges, many of which are made more complex when you need to build a form to fit into a small space.
- WYMeditor - standards-compliant XHTML editor - Home wymeditor.org
A web-based WYSIWYM editor.
- Forget WYSIWYG editors - use WYSIWYM instead | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
There is another kind of editor that is better suited than WYSIWYG for content-driven, client-edited sites - the WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) editor.
- Functional Accessibility Evaluator: Run FAE fae.cita.uiuc.edu
Use this form to evaluate the functional accessibility of a single Web page.
- Accessibility Extensions for Mozilla/Firefox: Announcements firefox.cita.uiuc.edu
"Makes it easier for people with disabilities to view and navigate web content. A toolbar provides easy access to navigation, styling, and keyboard enhancement functionality. Developers can use the extension to check their structural markup from the brows
- Vitamin Features » Communicating web 2.0 through design thinkvitamin.com
UI expert Robert Hoekman Jr shows you how to educate your visitors about the features of contemporary sites and web apps through instructive design.
- Nidahas » Forms markup and CSS - Revisited nidahas.com
A flexible, semantically correct, and dare I say, accessible template to which such features could be readily applied.
- Public bodies face disability law change | The Register theregister.co.uk
The new Disability Equality Duty (DED) places a legal obligation on public bodies to consider the needs of the disabled when planning services.
- Click here and other meaningless link phrases | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
"One of those things that you have to keep educating clients about: writing good and informative link phrases." About 5 or 6 times a day, normally.
- SAP Design Guild -- Accessibility Legislation - an Insight sapdesignguild.org
Summary of accessibility legislation by country.
Choose LEGEND text that is:Concise: between 1 and 6 words; Relevant: to every single form field in the FIELDSET; Seamless: in that the words chosen for the LEGEND should make sense when joined to each label phrase.
- Joe Clark Micropatronage joeclark.org
I’m appealing to supporters to donate small amounts to support me while I start up a research project.
- Juicy Studio: Firefox 2.0 and Access Keys juicystudio.com
"Firefox 2.0 uses Shift+Alt as the keystroke combination to invoke access keys. On the surface, this appears to be a great idea, as it avoids clashing with the shortcut keys used for the browser. Unfortunately, the new behaviour has been poorly implemente
- Accessibility statements or Site help pages? | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
Are we supposed to stop providing them now? No, not really, but perhaps we should replace them with something better.
How useful accessibility pages provided on a selection of UK Web sites were to users - in particular older people without significant impairments, but who may soon benefit from accessibility information.
- Caution! Access keys broken in Firefox 2.0 on the PC - Web Content Management Software by Hannon Hill hannonhill.com
"Firefox 2.0 doesn't actually break access keys, as was originally thought. Rather, the Firefox developers [...] decided to change access keys from Alt plus the number/letter to Alt plus Shift plus the number/letter." Gee, thanks.
- Blogger - Can I get in please? - The Web Standards Project webstandards.org
How Blogger blocks users from getting past the front door when the browser is JavaScript-capable but is sitting behind script blocking firewalls - and how it’s not alone in making this mistake.