Hidden text can be a spammer’s haven.
Years ago, when screen readers were at release 4.0, they started to change and actually pay attention to display:none. I ran a series of tests back then and knew exactly how every screen reader behaved. I was one of the earliest advocates of hiding helpful text off to […]
We have a hack for JAWS. Should we use it? Is it useful beyond JAWS?
Three articles came to light in “Today’s AJAX and DHTML Best Practices.” Two of the articles went to some length to find ways to move focus as part of an AJAX event. They sought to take the visitor from the trigger event to the results in one smooth, easy move. For those of […]
Dennis in Web Axe Episode 24 mentions”
If the tab orders are different than the actual flow of the content on your page, it’s going to be really disorienting for the (screen reader) user.
Really? We know that this sort of disorder will be apparent in regular browsers. That happens with screen readers? […]
Recently, Bruce Lawson talked about receiving a copy of his new book, a collaboration with a number of well known names in the accessibility field:
Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance by Andrew Kirkpatrick, Bruce Lawson, Richard Rutter, Christian Heilman, Jim Tatcher and Cynthia Waddell. While engaging in a bit of unwarranted self-flagellation, Bruce […]
Great work by James Edwards brings this blog briefly out of hiatus. James has completed the testing and results compilation for our JavaScript test case regarding form elements.
Quite some time ago, we published our second quiz about JavaScript accessibility. This one focused on form elements and all of the ways that JavaScript might […]
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