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Category Archives: Accessibility
Easy ARIA Tip #6: Making clickables accessible
It often happens that designers and web developers agree on the fact that they do not like the standard buttons or the styling capabilities of buttons in browsers. To work around this, they then resort to what’s called clickable text. … Continue reading
Review: Dell Latitude 10 inch tablet with Windows 8
At the 2013 CSUN conference, I was invited by Accessibility Partners to participate in an interview pertaining to tablet computer accessibility. Having used iPads for my personal use for years, and also having ventured into Android tablets such as the … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Windows
Tagged DellLatitude10Touch, MicrosoftNarrator, MicrosoftSurface, NVDA, Windows8, WindowsRT
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Advanced ARIA tip #1: Tabs in web apps
The following article will describe how to properly create accessible tabs in web apps. This is important for both mobile and desktop web applications. Tabs are not native to HTML5, so if you simulate them, you’ll probably use other markup … Continue reading
Why do native mobile apps seem to win all the time?
Twitter is often a place of small, but thought-provoking bits of information or personal impression. Just today, Mick Curran, one of the NVDA core developers, tweeted this: Just used new iPhone app from @crust_pizza to order my dinner. Quite blindy … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Mobile
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A top 100 killer web accessibility blog
Last night, I received an e-mail from Jimmy Atkinson, owner of the Web Hosting Database, who informed me that this blog is now listed in the 100 killer web accessibility resources, blogs, forums and tutorials article. I must admit I’m … Continue reading
An overview of accessible app.net clients
In December of 2011, I wrote about the accessibility of social networks, or rather, how sad the picture looked. Since then, not much has changed in those mentioned networks, except a good update to the Facebook app and some improvements … Continue reading
My recap of the Accessibility Day 2012 in Vienna, Austria
On October 25, I took part in the 2012 Accessibility Day A-Tag 2012, in Vienna, Austria. This semi-annual event brings together people of various technology fields and organisations as well as end users with disabilities to exchange, share, and get … Continue reading
Accessibility – what is it good for?
There are those days when you watch a discussion unfold on Twitter, and a point is reached where a statement is made that leaves you more or less speechless for a while. In this case, it was a discussion started … Continue reading
Support for TalkBack’s Jelly Bean Explore By Touch now in Firefox for Android nightlies
This is just a quick shout-out to you early adopters that, as of the August 22, 2012 nightly build of Firefox for Android, support for Explore By Touch, Jelly Bean style, has landed and is now working. If you use … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Firefox, Mobile
Tagged Accessibility, Android, ExploreByTouch, Firefox, JellyBean, TalkBack
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Are web apps accessible enough to replace desktop applications any time soon?
I know, reflections on things usually happen at years-end time, but to be honest, this blog post has been in my head for the last two-and-a-half years, and has thus “seen” a number of year-ends, so I felt that it’s … Continue reading
Firefox for Android Nightly builds now with Explore By Touch
As of the June 28, 2012 build of Firefox for Android nightly builds, the Explore By Touch feature of the Ice Cream Sandwich version of TalkBack is supported in web content in addition to the already supported browser user interface. … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Firefox, Mobile
Tagged Accessibility, Android, ExploreByTouch, Firefox, TalkBack
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How to get WebVisum working again
Update: As of some time this lunch time in Europe, WebVisum is back in full working business. The instructions to edit one’s hosts file to point to the IP address for the WebVisum service directly has, therefore, been removed from … Continue reading
Accessibility in Firefox for Android – Some more technical details
In my previous blog post, I focused on the user-facing aspects of the new accessibility features we’re currently building into Firefox for Android. This blog post is about the more technical details of this support. First, the fact that we’ve … Continue reading
First round of accessibility support for Android in mobile Firefox
Lots of exciting stuff happening at Mozilla these days! The accessibility team is ramping up its efforts on multiple fronts. I am pleased to announce that mobile Firefox, code-named Fennec, nightly builds now have a first implementation of accessibility for … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Firefox, Mobile
Tagged Accessibility, Android, Eyes-Free, Firefox, KickBack, SoundBack, TalkBack
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Initial VoiceOver support now in Firefox nightly builds for Mac OS X
Yes, many of you have been waiting for this to happen, and now it’s finally there! From the April 30, 2012 Nightly build onwards, Firefox for the Mac comes with VoiceOver support turned on by default. All you have to … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Apple, Firefox
Tagged Accessibility, Firefox, MacOsXUniversalAccess, VoiceOver
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Hiding content untangled: Hiding vs. moving out of the visible viewport
This blog post is once again prompted by something I encountered in the wild. The other day, I was testing browserid.org‘s account manager for accessibility and encountered some inconsistencies in keyboard navigation and screen reader usage. For one, there are … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility
Tagged Accessibility, CSS, DisplayNone, HidingContent, NegativePositioning
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Progress on Mac accessibility work in Firefox
This is an update for all who are interested in our Mac accessibility implementation. After I blogged about this topic last time, we entered into a bit of a rough time having to do with the text interface of the … Continue reading
If you use the WAI-ARIA role “application”, please do so wisely!
This goes out to all web developers out there reading this blog and implementing widgets and other rich content in HTML, CSS and JavaScript! If you think of using the WAI-ARIA role “application” in your code, please do so with … Continue reading