Entries filed under 'Accessibility'

WCAG Samurai question

Filed under Accessibility on 27.02.08

So the final version of the WCAG Samurai errata to WCAG1.0 was published yesterday, and it all seems eminently sensible to me.

The only correction I don’t understand at the moment is this one, under Guideline 10:

Do not add non-link, printable characters (surrounded by spaces or not) between adjacent links unless the semantics of the document naturally would include such characters.

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Easier autopopulating textboxes with JavaScript

Filed under Javascript, Accessibility on 18.10.07

Roger Johannson just posted a rather lengthy script over at 456 Berea Street that is intended to help the accessibility-conscious developer combat their designer’s label-less form design. It struck me as a little silly to repeat the label as an unnecessary title attribute, so I wondered how easy it would be to use the existing label instead of futzing with the input value. As it turns out, it’s very easy—here’s how to do it.

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Things you notice on dial-up

Filed under Accessibility, Internet on 8.08.06

From the time we moved house up until last Thursday (a period of around 4 weeks) we had no broadband at home. Apparently BT’s Arse department had neglected to check with the Elbow team whether they had set up an account, but that’s another story – for now I want to talk about my dial-up experience.

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SiteMorse would fail their own accessibility test

Filed under Accessibility on 8.07.05

SiteMorse, the self-styled “global leaders in accessibility testing”, have published yet another self-aggrandising article condemning their perceived competition for failing to meet what they consider to be necessary accessibility criteria.

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Like it by the free economy...

Filed under Accessibility, General on 21.02.05

Those Germans seem to be big on web accessibility; several .de sites have linked to my recent article on the accessibility of UK banks – and through the power of the Babel Fish Translator I can even see what they’re saying about me… sort of:

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Accessibility in the UK banking industry

Filed under Accessibility on 15.02.05

A recent article I wrote on the state of some of the UK’s leading banks and building societies’ websites when it comes to accessibility has been posted on the home page of the GAWDS site, as well as linked to from various other weblogs/sites.

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Hacking Textpattern for WCAG accessibility validation

Filed under Accessibility, Textpattern on 15.01.05

There are some minor niggling problems with the default Textpattern installation that mean that your site will never be able to claim WCAG accessibility compliance (and won’t validate using the W3C validation service) – but implement the changes below and all will be right with the world!

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Support the Right to Read

Filed under General, Accessibility on 16.11.04

The RNIB yesterday launched a campaign aimed at making more books available, at a reasonable price, in accessible formats – large print, audio or braille – for the benefit of blind, partially-sighted or dyslexic people:

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Images off/CSS on Image Replacement

Filed under CSS, Accessibility on 3.08.04

I recently read Dan Cederholm’s book, Web Standards Solutions, and was surprised to find that, apart from a couple of obscure inline text tags, I already knew absolutely everything he had to say.

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