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Posted in Accessibility, Mobile on May 31st, 2011
I’m not a huge fan of skip links as a solution for screen reader users on desktop but agree wholeheartedly that visible ones are extremely helpful for sighted keyboard only users who, unlike screen reader users, are forced to tab through content in a linear fashion. The real value being that they are visible – which [...]
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 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 [...]