‘Accessibility at the Edge’ W3C CG Is an Overlay Smoke Screen Adrian Roselli brings attention to the Accessibility at the Edge community group, hosted on W3.org. People would be forgiven for assuming that such groups are supported by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), but Adrian talks us through the process, which requires just five… [Read More]
A First Look at the Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act Bill The “Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act” (or #A11yAct) has been put forward to the United States Congress. If it succeeds, it will build on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Its aim is to lead to clearer regulations for digital accessibility requirements… [Read More]
Perceived affordances and the functionality mismatch Léonie Watson shares a design problem she encountered on Twitter. When you have ‘buttons’ grouped together in a row, and only one can be ‘active’ at any one time, how should it be marked up? This fits quite nicely with a standard radio button form control, where you can… [Read More]
Are you sure that’s a number input? Kilian Valkhof highlights how <input type=”number”> is often used incorrectly, despite it being available in browsers for around 8 years now. Number inputs display a ‘spinbox’ (up and down buttons) to make it easier to increment or decrement the input. This kind of indicates the type of thing… [Read More]
A First Look at the Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act Bill The “Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act” (or #A11yAct) has been put forward to the United States Congress. If it succeeds, it will build on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Its aim is to lead to clearer regulations for digital accessibility requirements… [Read More]
Abbreviations can be problematic Martin Underhill writes about the problems of using abbreviations such as NGL (“not gonna lie”) and how inaccessible these cultural shortcuts can be. There is an official ‘fix’ for this in HTML: <abbr title=”Not gonna lie”>NGL</abbr>, but it doesn’t show a tooltip when a touchscreen user touches it, nor is it… [Read More]
Brief Note on Super- and Subscript text Adrian Roselli explores how different screen readers deal with superscript and supscript text. Firstly, it’s useful to note that there are multiple different positions of super/sub script, set using the vertical-align CSS property: baseline is used for representing the lower character in fractions and abbreviations, alongside super for… [Read More]
Two new bots can help newsrooms prioritize accessibility and alt text An interview with Patrick Garvin, former worker of Boston Globe. Patrick noticed that a lot of newsrooms tended to omit alt text on their social media, excluding a lot of people from reading that content. So he built an @AltAwareness Twitter bot, which listens… [Read More]
accessguide.io A handy resource for learning about accessibility guidelines for the web. It covers common design patterns such as saving data after session timeout. It covers how to prevent interesting buggy edge cases such as accidentally hitting a button when trying to scroll past it. And it covers common accessibility problems such as identifying and… [Read More]
Brief Note on Super- and Subscript text Adrian Roselli explores how different screen readers deal with superscript and supscript text. Firstly, it’s useful to note that there are multiple different positions of super/sub script, set using the vertical-align CSS property: baseline is used for representing the lower character in fractions and abbreviations, alongside super for… [Read More]
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