#accessibility (449 links)
Accessible, pretty forms developed by Philip Howard
“Apple’s system preference pane for Universal Access: takes into account the probability that users needing assistance [...] would most likely appreciate larger, bolder text on that pref panel.” Might be nice to do for accessibility statements...
- Accessibility or Help links? » AlastairC alastairc.ac
"You see a lot of links on sites which are for “Accessibility”, to provide both help for those with accessibility issues, and state what levels of accessibility the site is aiming for. However, I believe that this content should be split up between tw
"After personally observing users with disabilities interacting with websites in unexpected ways, I have come to believe strongly in the value of user research—and to suspect that we really don’t know quite as much about real-world accessibility as we
- niqui merret » Blog Archive » Visit with the RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind) niquimerret.com
Great phrase: "We run automated tests and use cleaver scripts that allow us to get compliant but all we get is Check-box Accessibility (compliant but not usable)."
- isolani - Web Accessibility: Accessibility in Trouble isolani.co.uk
Its clear that the web accessibility community has been on a downward spiral for over a year now, but its not entirely clear why.
- Future of web accessibility » AlastairC alastairc.ac
"Trenton Moss wrote up his thoughts on the future of accessibility (via Accessibility Blog), and the general accessibility implications of some new technologies. The points in the main section of the article are good, but I don’t think they provide suff
- The future of web accessibility webcredible.co.uk
It's been seven years since the W3C released the first version of the web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG 1.0). Since then, accessibility has slowly but surely turned up on the radar of web managers in most large organisations.
- CSS Validator colour warnings are not errors | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
t’s quite common for CSS authors to think that the warnings the CSS Validator reports are errors [...] Those particular warnings are there for accessibility reasons and to remind you that you need to take care when specifying colours.
I’ve rarely seen the TABINDEX attribute applied without it creating more problems than it solves.
- The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web - a practical guide to web typography webtypography.net
A practical guide to web typography
Web authors who believe that they’re being thoughtful by making their ACCESSKEY choices alphabetic [...] Please think again. Using numeric characters is quite accessible enough.
Nomensa investigated the accessibility of websites belonging to the top 30 most popular online retailers, based on visits from UK shoppers.
- UK's top web retailers failing the disabled | The Register theregister.co.uk
Usability agency Nomensa tested the retail websites and found that none fulfilled the most basic accessibility guidelines.
- A List Apart: Articles: Text-Resize Detection alistapart.com
We’ll give you a way to detect your visitors’ initial font size setting—and a way to find out whenever your visitor increases or decreases the font size.
- Accessites.org’s Web Accessibility Articles & News | Accessites.org: Selected Article accessites.org
You may not be aware, unless you’ve read the actual DOCTYPE documents themselves (and frankly, who wants to do that?) that the HTML 4.01 Transitional DOCTYPE tells you to avoid using the HTML 4.01 Transitional DOCTYPE if you can.
- Juicy Studio: Using the title Attribute juicystudio.com
Current user agents provide very poor access to title text information, and what access they do provide is typically inaccessible for people with disabilities.
- Accessible interdependent dropdowns onlinetools.org
- Selecting country names in forms | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
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- Bruce Lawson’s personal site : Forms: inputting country names brucelawson.co.uk
The most accessible, user-friendly way to receive input that a user incontravertibly knows is to ask the user to type their response into a free-text field, rather than require them to select it.
- Juicy Studio: Fixing Quotes in Internet Explorer juicystudio.com
"Although Internet Explorer recognises the q element, it doesn't render the quotations marks around the quoted text. A CSS solution isn't possible, as Internet Explorer doesn't support the :before and :after pseudo-elements, so this article suggests a scr
"Techniques you can implement to achieve advanced accessibility, beyond the guidelines." Nothing radical
- Amberlight - User Centred Research and Design Services amber-light.co.uk
London based Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Consultancy who provide user-centred research and design services to clients and partners in the UK and internationally.
- The four levels of PDF accessibility » AlastairC alastairc.ac
Portable Document Format (PDF) accessibllity is not a new topic, it is well understood and explained by certain experts. However, the implications are universally unknown by organisations.
- Google Accessible Search labs.google.com
"Accessible Web Search for the Visually Challenged." Hurrah!
- Accessites.org’s Web Accessibility Articles & News | Accessites.org: Selected Article accessites.org
A simple, but effective way to give an extreme visual example to show the editors that something has gone horribly wrong
- Open Source Flash - flashaid osflash.org
Allows JavaScript to check if accessibility features exist on the user’s computer by using a hidden (1 pixel x 1 pixel) Flash application.
- DOM Scripting: FlashAid domscripting.com
Some way to make use of Flash to detect a screen reader and pass on that information to JavaScript.
- RNIB clear print guidelines rnib.org.uk
Guidelines on designing printed information that is accessible to people with sight problems.
- Vitamin Features » Responsible Asynchronous Scripting thinkvitamin.com
AJAX and its kin are empowering developers, but with great power comes great responsibility.
- Use AJAX scripting responsibly | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
The key is to use scripting to add value for those who can take advantage of it without causing problems for those who, for whatever reason, cannot.
- QnECMS Content Mangement System | Accessible Content Management System: Quick and Easy (QnECMS) qnecms.co.uk
Quick & Easy Accessible CMS, Weblog and Podcasting Software.
- Etre - Get Results. etre.com
We design, manage and deliver profitable user experiences.
- Christian Montoya » Bad Ideas of Web Design christianmontoya.com
Bad ideas that get in the minds of standards-based developers
- Juicy Studio: Making Ajax Work with Screen Readers juicystudio.com
The accessibility community is understandably concerned about the accessibility of client-side scripting, in particular using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) to produce Rich Internet Applications.
- box of chocolates » Ten Smart Moves to Improve your Business boxofchocolates.ca
- WCAG Samurai wcagsamurai.org
a group of developers, led by Joe Clark, that will publish corrections for, and extensions to, existing standards for Web accessibility. Our first area of interest is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, though we have not ruled out publishing er
- A List Apart: Articles: To Hell with WCAG 2 alistapart.com
"Where WCAG 2 breaks down is in the big stuff. Curiously, though, and perhaps due to meticulous editing over the years, the big stuff is well camouflaged and, to an uninformed reader, WCAG 2 seems reasonable. It isn’t, and you as a working standards-com
- ITenables Forum - Development of digital television 80.168.137.82
Does anyone know how the development of digital TV will affect the reception of sign language, sub-titling, and audio description services for deaf people and visually impaired viwers respectively?
- digtv_equipment-march06.pdf (application/pdf Object) digitaltelevision.gov.uk
This report examines the user needs of older and disabled people in relation to digital TV and provides solutions that would make digital TV equipment more suitable and usable for them.
- Accessites.org’s Web Accessibility Articles & News | Accessites.org: Selected Article accessites.org
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- BBC - My Web My Way - Homepage bbc.co.uk
Do you need help in making the web easier to use? This site explains the many ways you can change your browser, computer, keyboard and mouse settings to make the web more accessible for you.
- Accessibility statements and site viewing options | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
Glaucoma Research Foundation has a really well-written accessibility statement.