TL;DR: Be careful when using the word menu. Be certain you have chosen the term that accurately describes the control you want. If this post looks familiar to you, that is because it is essentially a redress of my 2020 post Stop Using ‘Drop-down’. It is not as divergent as…

The popover attribute adds behaviour, not semantics. Which semantics should you use in combination with the popover attribute?

Thursday is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, and as in years past, Apple has previewed several new accessibility features coming later this year. This year, Apple is focusing on a wide range of accessibility features covering cognitive, vision, hearing, mobility, and speech, which were designed with feedback from disability communities. The company hasn’t said when these

A subset of ARIA roles are defined as having presentational children. These are mostly a subset of widget roles Presentational Children The DOM descendants are presentational. User agents SHOULD NOT expose descendants of this element through the...

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Finding a trusted methodology for evaluating font accessibility for both vision impairment and cognitive accessibility.

The following blog post has recently done the rounds and it is yet another article about accessibility that doesn’t quite add-up, and is…

And how to make more informed design decisions.

Actually no, the results will probably not surprise you.

Should you fail interactive elements that have questionable hover styles under WCAG SC 1.4.11. Spoiler alert: the answer is no.

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Separate your concerns.

It will certainly look familiar, as prefers-color-scheme has been around for longer and is clearly related.

While a custom CSS scrollbar may seem flashy and fun, consider that it may present a significant, unnecessary barrier to access…

No, no, no, no and no! What is it with designers making wild claims about fixing the reading experience for dyslexics like me, without offering up the research… | 21 comments on LinkedIn

Using a screen reader on mobile is challenging because users must access information sequentially and they cannot easily scan page content. Screen-reader users do not consider accessibility menus helpful.

TL;DR: Despite claims, APG’s support charts are not ARIA support charts and they are not analogous to Can I Use. While brand new and likely to grow, their scope is still strictly APG patterns. Why I Say This I have opinions on the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG). I am…

Your feedback is wanted on a proposed solution for the problem of layout methods arranging items in an order that is disconnected from the source of the document.

Find (accessible) HTML slides here: https://slides.yatil.net/were-aria-live.html

Writing for accessibility is much more than just alt text — it makes for better, clearer content that everyone can enjoy.

I have written a bunch about responsive tables. Maybe too much. I keep trying to give developers the information they need to make informed decisions — ARIA attributes, screen reader & browser pairing results, bugs, and so on. I have spread things out over years of posts. I have filed…

What is the EAA and when does it apply?

In this piece, a Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) auditor shares some cookie banner error patterns that can massively hurt a page’s overall conformance. Let’s explore what to look out for with this omnipresent piece of the web interface.

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Another post where I lay it all out in the title. What follows is why I am making this assertion (with a handy table of contents). Timeline 26 May 2022 at 10:58am ET 26 May 2022 at 7:56pm ET 27 May 2022 at 7:38pm ET 28 May 2022 at 5:04pm…

Starting today, viewers can access ASL as an option when viewing Scott Lang’s first adventure in the MCU.