Foundational HTML talk from Emily Lewis
Get to know Emily Lewis, who will be on a panel at SXSW Interactive this year. This is a recent talk she gave to a local tech group called Webuquerque. She talks about the basics of good markup,...
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WebAIM’s Screen Reader User Survey
You can see the full set of results of the WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey #3. I hope you’ll study them with interest. I want to highlight a few of their findings here. ARIA Landmarks ARIA (Accessible...
View ArticleWaiting for Screen Readers to Learn the Semantics of HTML5
There are new semantic elements in HTML5 with names like header, article, and nav. But the screen readers haven’t quite caught up with the element names yet. The most recent test results I’ve seen on...
View ArticleUseful links: media queries, landmark roles, structural elements
CSS Media Queries is a Mozilla Dev Network basic tutorial on media queries. Usable landmarks across desktop and mobile is from Henny Swan about which ARIA roles are the most useful and when to use...
View ArticleUseful Links: Design Patterns, CSS3 Transforms, Industry Ready, Large Background
HTML5 and ARIA Design Patterns is at .net magazine. It provides design patterns for main elements, navigation elements, sections, details, summaries, and figures and figcaptions. In each design...
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Think about ARIA roles when choosing a WordPress theme – Updated
ARIA landmark roles are used to improve accessibility and provide useful navigation points that a screen reader recognizes and can find quickly. The role information is written into the HTML as an...
View ArticleWhat are Implicit ARIA Roles?
For a while now, I’ve been seeing mentions of implicit ARIA roles as something web designers and developers should be aware of and know how to use. In the case of ARIA roles, the word implicit means...
View ArticleTwitter Writes a Post about role=presentation
There is an ARIA role called “presentation” in the WAI ARIA spec. With Twitter’s help, Denis Boudreau wrote this post about it. This is how it started: @goodwitch We need a really clear post on when to...
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