Posted in Accessibility, Mobile on Sep 2nd, 2011
I’ve been concerned that there’s been a lot of talk around Mobile Safari supporting WAI ARIA but there’s little documentation out there confirming what is and isn’t supported so I thought I’d run a few basic tests with Mobile Safari on iPhone 4 and iPad 1 to see what’s what.
Posted in Accessibility, Mobile on Aug 18th, 2011
I tweeted yesterday about the Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards (#vsa2011), a competition to get developers, designers and users together to come up with an idea for an application that can help older and disabled users: The Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards is a new contest to promote the development of IT applications designed to [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Mobile on Aug 3rd, 2011
I’ve been playing around with ways of expanding abbreviated text on mobile using both <abbr> and <span> specifically to see how well supported voice output is. I ran a few mobile browsers and voice output software over a test case for abbr and span listing abbreviated days of the week using <abbr>, <span> and as is [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Mobile on Jun 22nd, 2011
Establishing a mobile accessibility strategy can be a bit daunting. It’s tough to know where to start and even tougher to know where to stop: what devices should be supported, browsers, apps, access technology, who is it for and how teams can incorporate best practices into their working practices? The goal is to make the [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Conferences on Jun 17th, 2011
The good folk at Environments for Humans are running the second one-day, Accessibility Summit September 27th from 9AM to 5PM (CT). And the best thing about it? The conference comes to you, live and direct, as it’s all online. I’ve been lucky enough to be invited to speak about Integrating Accessibility Across Devices alongside some pretty [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Mobile on Jun 15th, 2011
Sounds obvious doesn’t it, keeping content consistent, but the devil is in the detail. When it comes to writing alt text teams rarely pool their work, let alone have a considered approach to what is appropriate alternative text across websites and mobile. Screen reader users rely on ALT text to understand content and functionality. On desktop this [...]