Accessibility in tech improved in 2020, but more must be done A mammoth article highlighting the key accessibility improvements made by the 6 giants of tech: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and Twitter. There’s a small conclusion at the end, briefly mentioning a few household names that have yet to fix fundamental issues in their… [Read More]
Hello! This week I thought I’d try something different, and bring you five different articles on screen readers. Let me know if you enjoy #WeekOfScreenReader and whether you’d like some more themed digests like this! What better place to start than with a nice, digestible history of screen readers? A Brief History of Screen Readers… [Read More]
Accessibility in tech improved in 2020, but more must be done A mammoth article highlighting the key accessibility improvements made by the 6 giants of tech: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and Twitter. There’s a small conclusion at the end, briefly mentioning a few household names that have yet to fix fundamental issues in their… [Read More]
We finish our #WeekOfScreenReader with a double article special: technical deep dives into data tables and dialog focus: Article 1: How screen readers navigate data tables Léonie Watson describes how she navigates data tables with NVDA (alternatively you can watch the video demonstration – 2 mins). Her demo table is marked up with a caption,… [Read More]
Today’s #WeekOfScreenReader is an opinion piece on screen readers and their relationship with image recognition: Thoughts on screen readers and image recognition Léonie Watson talks about image alt text and the fact that over 30% of homepage images are missing text descriptions. An additional 10% had useless alt text such as “image” or “blank”. Screen… [Read More]
After yesterday’s #WeekOfScreenReader, I’ve picked an article written by a web developer, giving their perspective on screen reader testing: A developer’s perspective: the problem with screen reader testing Jake Tracey laments the sheer number of different screen readers and browser/OS combinations, and the lack of data around screen reader versions. Jake argues we can realistically… [Read More]
Continuing the #WeekOfScreenReader, I’ve picked an article written by a screen reader user, aimed specifically at web developers: A message to web developers, from a screen reader user Holly Tuke, who is blind, explains to web developers the positive impact they can have on her web experience by following some simple tips: Try to get… [Read More]
Hello! This week I thought I’d try something different, and bring you five different articles on screen readers. Let me know if you enjoy #WeekOfScreenReader and whether you’d like some more themed digests like this! What better place to start than with a nice, digestible history of screen readers? Here’s your first daily frequent11y newsletter:… [Read More]
Focus management and inert Article by Eric Bailey, reminding developers to avoid manually specifying a tab order with tabindex=”[positive integer]” (there is, arguably, never a good reason to do this). But using tabindex=”-1″ is great for building accessible widgets: it makes elements focusable with JavaScript or click/tap, where it would otherwise not be focusable (i.e…. [Read More]
Is Progressive Enhancement Dead Yet? (video, 8 mins) Another Heydon Pickering ‘Web Briefs’ video, with a somewhat clickbaity title. This isn’t an analysis of frontend strategies in 2021, but a characteristically opinionated explanation of what good vs bad progressive enhancement looks like. In it, Heydon reinforces that: Sites should be functional and have decent layouts… [Read More]
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