Seeking Best Accessibility Practices

Archive for the “Section 5: Screen readers, etc.”

Test case: Speaking Special Characters

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

A visitor, Ben Boyle, recently wrote that he was surprised when OSX Voiceover announced a series of three periods as “elipsis.” It is a surprisingly accurate interpretation of a simple character string.
That got Ben to wondering about how other characters, and special encodings, are announced.  Ben put together a selection of special characters and the [...]


Quiz: Speaking forms labels – part 4

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

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 [...]


Summary of Results for JavaScript – Part 2: Navigating forms

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

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 [...]


Summary of Results for JavaScript – Part 1: Navigating links

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

We now have results from that JavaScript test case we published a few weeks ago. Lots and lots of results.


Quiz 5.2.9a: Screen Reader Test #9a

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

Zoe has a different way of doing the offleft hiding technique.


Quiz 5.2.15: Speaking form labels – 3

Monday, September 5th, 2005

Did you know you can have multiple labels on a form control? Patrick Lauke told me so … then asked why?