Opera’s Lie Blasts Microsoft on IE and Web Standards Support
Take a look at how Opera’s Hakon Lie publicly blasted Microsoft for it’s lack of support of Web Standards! Lie states, “Opera has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission to force...
View ArticleNVDA – a free and open source screen reader for Windows
People often ask on the various accessibility related forums and mailing lists, a question like: If I wanted a Screen reader program which one should I buy? For many developers is it worth buying a...
View ArticleIE 8 beta with WAI ARIA SUPPORT!
This is amazing news in terms of WAI ARIA implementation ! The W3C defines ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) as a syntax for making dynamic Web content and custom UI accessible. Internet...
View ArticleIE 8: alt change and longdesc weirdness
Update for IE 8b2 I have updated the results for IE8 b2, and included tests for input type=”image” Tests and results for HTML 4.01 transitional. Tests and results for HTML 4.01 strict. update end....
View ArticleARIA Toggle Button and Tri-state Checkbox examples
It is an exciting time for proponents of WAI-ARIA (Web Accessibility Initiative – Accessible Rich Internet Applications). With support introduced in IE 8 (beta), better support in Firefox 3, planned in...
View ArticleWAI-ARIA role support – How the browsers stack up
For the roles defined in WAI-ARIA it is expected that browsers expose the role values via an accessibility API, on the Windows platform the information is usually exposed using the Microsoft Active...
View Article#A11Y Slackers
A ubiquitous issue for people involved in moving the web forward is that there is always too much to do. Identifiying and prioritising tasks is critical. Identifying is fairly easy, prioritising not...
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