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 […]
We have the freedom to use TITLE text everywhere? Should we? Do you?
We all know that using ALT text is important for providing a text alternative to images. What about also using TITLE text?
Our first tests in this area explored navigating links which have JavaScript actions. Now, we turn to navigating forms which have actions attached to the various form elements. Our goal is to understand how browsers and screen readers react to script actions.
The test case asks you to simply navigate straight through one form […]