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Posted in Standards on Feb 14th, 2009
Last year Opera released data from MAMA (Metadata Analysis and Mining Application), a search engine that trawls web pages and returns results detailing page structures, what HTML, CSS, and script is used. MAMA examined 3,509,180 URLs in 3,011,668 domains and returned results on how many pages validate (only 4.13%), how many use Flash (33.5%), how [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Standards on Jan 20th, 2009
With a heading like that it makes it sound as if I’m going to demystify ARIA; once and for all so we can all happily skip into the virtual sunset with our accessible rich internet applications…Well sadly I’m not but the great and the good of the web development world have been coming up with [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Standards on Dec 19th, 2008
It feels like we have hit a critical time in web accessibility and for me 2008 has been a year that has clearly demonstrated a shift in focus away from advocacy towards action and with it brought a new generation of web accessibility developers. As we enter 2009 and the ten year anniversary of the [...]
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 [...]