In a recent thread on the Web Standards Group mailing list, the question arose about whether Screen Readers support semantic HTML elements such as strong and em. The short answer for the two main screen readers JAWS and Window Eyes is no. Neither do they support i or b for that matter. What is meant [...]
The WCAG Samurai errata for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 are available. Joe Clark and his merry band release version 1 of their attempt give some currency to WCAG 1.0.
As a result of some sage advice from Jason White (a W3C veteran), amongst others. Myself, Laura Carlson and Josh O Connor have started to attend the HTML WG weekly teleconferences. Our first meeting has already yielded some positive progress:
Action 54 - draft text for HTML 5 spec to require producers/authors to include @alt on [...]
Antisocial Networking - Jack Pickard comments on the recent eNation report about the accessibility of social networking sites. He question’s and characterises as simplistic, assumptions within the report in regards to Screen Reader support for JavaScript.
While working at vision australia I presented at Web Essentials 05 on the HTML title attribute, which lead to a right royal fisking by Joe Clark. I also conducted research on screen reader support and how it (title attribute) was accessed by user’s.