‘Web Accessibility’ Archive

Adobe Flex Accessibility Webinar

July 5, 2010, filed under Accessibility, Adobe, Flash, Flex, Web Accessibility, Webinar; 5 Comments.

Adobe Flex Accessibility Webinar
Hans Hillen from TPG is presenting a Flex Accessibility Webinar in conjunction with Adobe. It will be on Wednesday, July 21st 12:00 noon, US EST, and it’s free to attend.

Google Chrome Screen Reader Support update

June 21, 2010, filed under Assistive Technology, Google, Google Chrome, JAWS, NVDA, Screen Readers, VoiceOver, Web Accessibility, Window Eyes, windows; 6 Comments.

Following last weeks post about Google Chrome accessibility which was prompted by The Google Chrome Screen Reader Accessibility Petition created by Alex Hiironen, new information about Google Chrome screen reader support has been added to the Google Chrome (Chromium) wiki: 

Supported Screen Readers
The latest versions of these screen readers have partial support for Chrome now:

System Access to Go (Windows)
VoiceOver (Mac OS X)

These [...]

AViewer beta

June 17, 2010, filed under Firefox, HTML, HTML5, IAccessible2, Internet Explorer, MSAA, Screen Readers, WAI-ARIA, Web Accessibility, accessibility testing, windows; 11 Comments.

Here at TPG we  have been working on a new tool to inspect  elements on a web page and be able to view the HTML code, ARIA attributes (if any) and the information being conveyed by the browser to  accessibility APIs, all in one neatish interface. We have given it the catchy moniker   “AViewer” and a [...]

HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives

May 17, 2010, filed under Assistive Technology, HTML, HTML5, Standards, W3C, WCAG 2.0, Web Accessibility; 6 Comments.

HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives is a work in progress currently edited by me, I encourage anyone with an interest to contribute to its development.

Making sure hidden frames are hidden

April 16, 2010, filed under HTML, HTML 5, HTML5, JavaScript, Screen Readers, W3C, Web Accessibility; 9 Comments.

An issue that arises fairly frequently in regards to web applications is the use of hidden iframe elements used for retrieving data using JavaScript. While they can be easily hidden from visual display using CSS display:none, they are sometimes picked up by screen readers and other AT that extract the DOM code from browsers and [...]