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Sandra Earl

zomigi.com » Why browser zoom shouldn't kill flexible layouts - 0 views

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accessibility development design vision low vision zoom magnify

shared by Sandra Earl on 12 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Liquid layouts get rid of the dreaded horizontal scrollbar
  • Liquid layouts allow you to make full use of the area available in the viewport, showing more or less content, depending on what will fit at any given moment.
  • Liquid layouts essentially allow users to choose the line length, or number of text characters per line of text, that is most comfortable for them to read.
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  • If you have images that you think the user will want to get a closer look at, you can choose to scale only these images using easy CSS tricks. You can set up your images and CSS in such a way that the images will have little distortion or blurriness when scaled dynamically by the browser. The other images can all remain a constant size, so that they don’t get in the way of users with very large text and contribute to horizontal scrollbars, float drops, or other nasty things that can happen when you put huge images into web pages. And of couse, if a user does want to scale one of the non-scalable images, they can always use the browser zoom function as a backup method.
Vernon Fowler

Validation messages - 0 views

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forms accessibility validation

shared by Vernon Fowler on 09 Feb 19 - No Cached
  • If there are any validation messages, the focus is set to the first invalid input: this way, a screen reader will immediately announce the associated message, so the user knows that there is at least one invalid input to be fixed.
  • For multiple radio buttons or checkboxes, the message is associated to the surrounding <fieldset>.
  • In addition to this, each invalid input is associated to its message using aria-describedby. This is important, as it makes sure that screen readers also announce the messages when navigating through the inputs using the Tab key.
  • Vernon Fowler on 09 Feb 19
     
    "Data submitted in a form is usually validated in some way. And if there is any unacceptable data, the form is traditionally re-displayed, together with validation messages. In such a case, it is important to immediately inform screen reader users, so they know that they have to look at their data and submit again. "
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