Category Archives: Accessibility

WCAG 2.0 parsing error bookmarklet

While reading Jared Smith’s excellent article WCAG Next I was drawn to the following statement “next to impossible to evaluate” in reference to the checking of WCAG 2.0 success criterion 4.1.1 Parsing.

Posted in Accessibility, accessibility testing, HTML5, W3C Validator, WCAG 2.0, Web Accessibility | 7 Comments

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

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.

Posted in Accessibility, Accessibility Laws, Section 508, Web Accessibility | 2 Comments

HTML5 Accessibility Chops: using nested figure elements

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.

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

HTML5 semantics and accessibility

This  is a comment I made on the article Pursuing Semantic Value The author requested that I post it separately, so I have.

Posted in Accessibility, Assistive Technology, HTML, HTML5, Standards, W3C, Web Accessibility | 11 Comments

Detecting if images are disabled in browsers

I received an email from an old friend and colleague pointing out that with images disabled in the browser, the support information in the data tables on HTML5Accessibility.com disappears. An issue and an embarrassment! This has now been fixed.

Posted in Accessibility, accessibility testing, Firefox, high contrast, HTML5, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, Screen Readers, Web Accessibility | 28 Comments