Author Archives: Steve Faulkner

About Steve Faulkner

Steven is the Senior Web Accessibility Consultant and Technical Director, TPG Europe. He joined The Paciello Group in 2006 and was previously a Senior Web Accessibility Consultant at vision australia. He is the creator and lead developer of the Web Accessibility Toolbar accessibility testing tool. Steve is a member of several groups, including the W3C HTML Working Group and the W3C Protocols and Formats Working Group. He also develops and maintains www.HTML5accessibility.com

Web Accessibility Toolbar 2012

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Steve Faulkner

The Web Accessibility Toolbar has been updated with 2 new features: Thanks to Jun for all his work!

Posted in HTML, HTML5, Internet Explorer, W3C, W3C Validator, Web Accessibility | 4 Comments

HTML data for the masses: data dump

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Steve Faulkner

I have been doing regex searches on the HTML of the 8900 or so of the top 10000 home pages I collected over easter and am providing the results of those searches I have conducted so far, in raw form:

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HTML data for the masses: DOCTYPE usage

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Steve Faulkner

Of a sample of approximately 8900 home pages from a list of of the top 10,000 sites the following HTML doctype usage was found: Total pages with a doctype declaration: 7708

Posted in HTML, HTML5, W3C, W3C Validator | 1 Comment

HTML5 Accessibility Chops: data for the masses

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Steve Faulkner

One of the stumbling blocks for working out what the effects on the accessibility of new (and old) HTML5 features is not having any publicly accessible usage data. It is difficult without data to argue for the inclusion of features … Continue reading →

Posted in Accessibility, HTML 5, HTML5, W3C, Web Accessibility | 11 Comments

Rough Guide: browsers, operating systems and screen reader support

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Steve Faulkner

Practical screen reader support by browser and OS (09/03/2012) When testing aspects of support for new HTML5,  WAI-ARIA features and HTML features in general, I often test browsers that do not have practical support for screen readers on a particular … Continue reading →

Posted in accessibility testing, Apple, Assistive Technology, ChromeVox, Firefox, Google, Google Chrome, HTML, HTML5, Internet Explorer, iPad, iPhone, JAWS, microsoft, mobile, Mozilla, NVDA, Opera, Safari, Screen Readers, WAI-ARIA, Web Accessibility, Window Eyes, windows | 9 Comments