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Sandra Earl

Adactio: Journal-Tools and Technologies to Watch and Avoid - 0 views

  • Christian asks what would be the open-source equivalent of AIR? XUL says Ian. Christian says that AIR is built on HTML, CSS and JavaScript so once the player gets keyboard access it will be quite accessible. Ian responds that he looked on the Adobe site for accessibility info on AIR and the fact that he found nothing scared him.
Vernon Fowler

Prettier Accessible Forms · An A List Apart Article - 0 views

  • The fieldset element allows us to group form controls into logical, related “chunks.” legend then allows us to add a caption to that fieldset, which helps users understand the context of the form controls contained within that fieldset. In some screen readers, the legend is associated with each form control within a fieldset and is read out after each tab of the keyboard, so that a particular control can always be referenced back to its legend.
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    "The most important part of a form is the HTML we use to build it. Fortunately, HTML gives us a nice assortment of tags to build our forms in an accessible way. These are fieldset, legend, and label."
Vernon Fowler

WebAIM: Using NVDA to Evaluate Web Accessibility - 0 views

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    "This article is designed to help users who are new to NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) learn the basic controls for testing web content, and to serve as a reference for the occasional NVDA user. "
Vernon Fowler

Hiding Content for Accessibility - Snook.ca - 0 views

  • This clip technique is also what's provided in the .visuallyhidden helper class in HTML5 Boilerplate.
  • We've only begun using and testing this technique, so even this may not be perfect. Any feedback and suggestions are quite welcome.
Vernon Fowler

Places It's Tempting To Use Display: None; But Don't | CSS-Tricks - 0 views

  • I recently heard a heartbreaking story about a blind girl trying to apply for college and the form had missing labels so she had no idea what to put in what fields.
  • @media queries Turning on Voice Over in OS X and using Safari is a screen reader. Now imagine that Safari window was open to a very narrow width and the page had some @media queries for handling smaller viewports. And say that @media query hides some things with display: none in order to better visually accomodate the space. This could be good or bad for accessibility. Are you hiding a bunch of crap that isn't important to the page? Or are you hiding useful things that a person using a screen reader should have access to like they normally would.
Vernon Fowler

HTML5 Accessibility Chops: section elements | The Paciello Group Blog - 0 views

  • The following table illustrates support and interaction features for a number of structural HTML elements. The information is based on support for these elements by the JAWS screen reader.
  • Recommended ARIA role mappings for HTML5 section elements
  • <header role=”banner”>
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • <nav role=”navigation”>
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    "banner"
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