The recent EU ruling requires Microsoft to provide Windows operating system users with a choice of browsers to install rather than having Microsoft Internet Explorer pre-installed. This is a laudable initiative that provides a more level playing field for browser vendors and more choice for consumers. Unfortunately what it does not do is provide informed [...]
CSS sprites are a useful method to display graphics while preserving bandwith and improving page rendering times. One of the problems with CSS sprites when it comes to their accessibility is that some operating system display themes such as Windows High Contrast mode have the effect of hiding CSS background images. So if an alternative version of the [...]
Recently Roger Johansson wrote a post about Safari, WebKit and alt text for missing images. In which he talks about how Webkit based browsers do not always display alt attribute content in place of an image when the image is not available or images are disabled. I have gone a little further into this issue by [...]
Testing of the latest builds of the major Windows browsers indicates Google Chrome’s ARIA role support improving, 18 of 47 roles are now correctly mapped to MSAA roles. There has been no change in Opera or IE support and only minimal improvement in Safari/Webkit support. There has been a minor regression in Firefox support in the [...]
Recently Gez Lemon of TPG wrote an article for the Opera Developer Network on Accessible drag and drop using WAI-ARIA. His colleague Cedric Trevisan has translated Gez’s article into French.