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Stop Giving Control Hints to Screen Readers | Adrian Roselli
Stop Giving Control Hints to Screen Readers | Adrian Roselli
TL;DR: for standard HTML controls and standard ARIA patterns (widgets), you do not need to add instructions for screen readers on how to use them nor what they are. When a screen reader encounters an element on the page that invites interaction beyond reading, it typically provides users with instructions…
·adrianroselli.com·
Stop Giving Control Hints to Screen Readers | Adrian Roselli
Laying accessibility groundwork in ownCloud’s new web interface - ownCloud
Laying accessibility groundwork in ownCloud’s new web interface - ownCloud
Web accessibility is a complex topic, especially in the context of JavaScript-based web applications. With its new web interface, ownCloud starts to tackle this topic to create a front-end usable for and accessible to everyone, regardless of their circumstances, abilities or technologies used.
·owncloud.com·
Laying accessibility groundwork in ownCloud’s new web interface - ownCloud
Accessibility Issues with Firefox Quantum and screen readers - AccessibilityOz
Accessibility Issues with Firefox Quantum and screen readers - AccessibilityOz
Popularity in browsers Firefox popularity among screen reader users has been consistently increasing for the last few years. In a 2015 WebAIM survey, 34.9% of participants answered “Internet Explorer 10” to a question “When using your primary screen reader, which browser do you use most often?”, whereas 31% answered “Firefox”. However, in a 2017 survey,
·accessibilityoz.com·
Accessibility Issues with Firefox Quantum and screen readers - AccessibilityOz
More accessible defaults, please!
More accessible defaults, please!
Useful HTML elements like date inputs and `` could make the web a much better place, if browser accessibility bugs in their implementations were prioritised.
·hiddedevries.nl·
More accessible defaults, please!
A developer's perspective: the problem with screen reader testing | Jake Tracey
A developer's perspective: the problem with screen reader testing | Jake Tracey
Screen readers are an essential part of using the web for people who are vision impaired, illiterate or have a learning disability. Today’s screen readers traverse web pages and applications and read out user interface elements, content and allow users to navigate and interact with the web. There are many screen readers available for different devices and platforms, each with differing levels of…
·jaketracey.com·
A developer's perspective: the problem with screen reader testing | Jake Tracey
Grids Part 2: Semantics | Sarah Higley
Grids Part 2: Semantics | Sarah Higley
A dive into table and grid semantics, why they matter so much to screen readers, and your options for repairing or augmenting basic table markup.
·sarahmhigley.com·
Grids Part 2: Semantics | Sarah Higley
Avoid aria-roledescription | Adrian Roselli
Avoid aria-roledescription | Adrian Roselli
HTML has all sorts of built-in features that, when used correctly, are accessible, will localize, and which just work. For example, if I want a button, I use , and a screen reader will announce it as button. For users in other languages, they will hear whatever is their word…
·adrianroselli.com·
Avoid aria-roledescription | Adrian Roselli
Uncanny A11y | Adrian Roselli
Uncanny A11y | Adrian Roselli
Original photo by Kevin Hale (photo no longer on Flickr), text added. CC BY-SA 2.0. The pun in the title is that some people pronounce the a11y numeronym as “alley”. That makes the full title sound like uncanny valley, the concept of human-looking things seeming almost, but not quite, human…
·adrianroselli.com·
Uncanny A11y | Adrian Roselli
Part 2: 30 Days of Accessibility Testing
Part 2: 30 Days of Accessibility Testing
Last week, I finished my 30 Days of Accessibility Testing challenge from Ministry of Testing. I previously talked about the first 15 days of doing the challenge in this blog post, Part 1: 30 Days of Accessibility Testing. It's been a long month and there were definitely days where I skipped the challenges but still man
·mariedrake.com·
Part 2: 30 Days of Accessibility Testing
F87: CSS Generated Content and WCAG Conformance | Adrian Roselli
F87: CSS Generated Content and WCAG Conformance | Adrian Roselli
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) does a good job of providing supporting techniques to help reviewers determine if a specific case would violate a given Success Criterion (SC). WCAG 2.0, which became a recommendation at the end of 2008, has carried these techniques over to WCAG 2.1, finalized in…
·adrianroselli.com·
F87: CSS Generated Content and WCAG Conformance | Adrian Roselli