HTML5 Accessibility Chops: title attribute use and abuse

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Steve Faulkner

For the past 7 years myself and others have banged on about the trouble with the title attribute in regards to accessibility and usability. Bottom line is that it is not well supported in browsers and its usefulness is severely compromised as a consequence. All browser vendors are aware of the issues in regards to keyboard and touch based interfaces and yet have made no movement or commitment to implement improvements in the 19 years since it was originally specified in HTML. Continue reading →

Posted in Google Chrome, HTML, HTML5, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Opera, Safari, WCAG 2.0, Web Accessibility | 9 Comments

Are Delay Tactics Preventing Passage of New Section 508 Disability Law?

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Steve Faulkner

Brian Landrigan – Director of Sales & Marketing at The Paciello Group made the following representation to the Public Hearing on the Draft Update of ICT Requirements, January 11 2012. Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, Accessibility Laws, Section 508, Web Accessibility | 1 Comment

How YOU can join the W3C HTML5 Working Group in 4 easy steps

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Steve Faulkner

A great new initiative was launched recently: Move the Web Forward, which encourages developers to get involved in standards development. So I though it opportune to update and expand upon a how to by Ian Hickson from 2007.

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Posted in HTML, HTML5, Standards, W3C, Web Accessibility | 19 Comments

HTML5 canvas accessibility discussions 2009-2011

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Steve Faulkner

Charles Pritchard has taken the time to provide an email overview of Canvas accessibility discussions which have taken place on the public-canvas-api over the past 3 years. I have reformatted it here and added some headings, as it is an excellent resource for understanding where we have been and where we are with HTML5 canvas accessibility:

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Posted in canvas, HTML 5, Internet Explorer, JavaScript, W3C, Web Accessibility | 9 Comments

HTML5 Accessibility Chops: using nested figure elements

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Steve Faulkner

If you have a number of related images (or other content) with caption text,  you can use nested figure elements to associate both a group caption and an individual caption to each  instance using the figcaption element. Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, CSS, HTML, HTML5, Standards, W3C, WAI-ARIA, Web Accessibility | 7 Comments