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Posted in accessibility, standards on Jul 23rd, 2009
I’ve been dipping my toes into Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) lately and wondering how this can be made accessible and usable for all. It seems like a very under used technology which is a pity given it’s potential to be more readable by assitive technologies such as screen readers, braille displays and screen magnification than [...]
My site is well overdue a face lift flavoured with HTML5, a dash of ARIA and a healthy dose of WCAG 2.0. As you’d expect playing under the hood with all these things has made me ask a lot of questions so I thought I’d post a few tips along the way that I’ve found [...]
Posted in accessibility on May 12th, 2008
TV Raman and Charles Chen over at Google have just released their next installment in accessibility enabled Google applications: a zoom feature in Google Reader built using the AxsJax framework (AxsJax = Access-Enabling AJAX). Using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) they have built in the ability to increase and decrease the text size of stories in [...]
Posted in accessibility on Mar 21st, 2008
I’ve not tested this yet but TV Raman and Charles Chen (creator of FireVox) have added ARIA support to Google Reader. Instructions on how to use it can be found in Raman’s post about it on Google blogspot. ARIA support in Google Reader has been tested in the following environments: Fire Vox The self-voicing extension [...]