Posted in Accessibility, Standards on Mar 29th, 2011
This month’s article over at Spotless Interactive looks at ways of handling repeated adjacent links. Typically these are image and text links linking to one page and are often found on news websites. I look at how HTML5 block level linking can link entire areas of a page and WAI ARIA negative tabindex (tabindex=”-1″) can [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Standards on Jun 7th, 2010
The Web Standards Project (WaSP) has been busy at work hatching the InterACT curriculum, a framework for teaching standards based web design and development intended for schools, universities and business. Education is core to getting the web to pull it’s socks up and become more of an inclusive, cross browser, cross platform, cross device place. [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Standards on Aug 10th, 2009
A question I’m frequently asked by developers is why keyboard access for the Flash is not fully supported across browsers. Opera, Safari, Firefox and Chrome all have problems enabling keyboard users to tab into and out of Flash content while Internet Explorer works fine. The issue Plugin support typically needs an API that acts as [...]