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What benefits are offered by HTML5 over HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0 Strict for accessibility?
Started by austin cheney on
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Some stuff that comes to mind - there's probably lots more:
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None of the screen reader as a magic bullet, use good old html 4 and follow good accessibility guidelines.
From a practical standpoint it offers no accessibility enhancements.
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What are cons to use % over em in terms of accessibility?
Started by jitendra on
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Concerning accessibility as far as I know, but I would say it is hard to switch from one to the other.
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At what point does accessibility become non-pragmatic? and what is that shady gray area dictated by?
Started by Majd Taby on
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Since accessibility accessibility....
Such legislation will often eliminate the doubts.
accessibility requirements in the same way that physical buildings, workplaces, and the like have to adhere to accessibility requirements.
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Apart from the web accessibility toolbar for IE and the WAVE tool. Does anyone know of any other tools to assist in web accessibility testing.
I'm also looking for a screenreader emulator.
Started by AJM on
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Coverage....
It analyzes your HTML and finds potential accessibility problems.
The Illinois Center for Information Technology and Web Accessibility makes a great Firefox plug-in called the Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator (FAE).
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How compatible / compliant is sharepoint with current accessibility rules.
Also how compliant is it with the UK disability act?
Started by Antony Delaney on
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However I worked on a UK....
The Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS) version 2.0
which can be found here
I don't believe there's been a court case yet to establish exactly what level of accessibility is required to comply with the Act.
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I've never really learned much about accessibility but it seems like an important topic.
When you build a website or piece of software, or when you're talking to a client about a website, where does accessibility come in? Or from your experience, if you...
Started by viatropos on
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As a person with a disability myself, I am consious of adding accessibility features when I write software
Accessibility is an area of software design concerned with making software user interfaces a view of your content that makes sense....
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If I have a form that is the main part of a page's content, will assigning focus to the first form field via JavaScript on page load have any negative effects on accessibility?
Started by racurry on
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In between fields might irritate whatever assistive software.
On accessibility?
I can't think of any.
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I am working on making my iPhone app accessible. I have several UIBarButtonItem objects in Interface Builder, and I cannot find any option to set the accessibility label or hint for these buttons.
How can I set these attributes?
Started by Tim Norman on
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Trying to set accessibility labels manually didn't work for me: accessibility configurable in IB..
It in Interface Builder, even though you can set accessibility attributes on other UI elements using IB elegant, but it works.
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Which screen reader would be best to test site accessibility and how to configure that screen reader to test website (or default screen-reader setting would be ok) and which browser should be used to test accessibility with screen-readers?
Free or commercial...
Started by jitendra on
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You won't know how accessible your site is until can use a screen reader....
Screen reader you could use to test accessibility is NVDA this is an open source screen reader that works reader isn't enough to do good accessibility testing.
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I understand that some countries have laws regarding website accessibility. In general, what are the minimum requirements that a website must meet to be accessible, regardless of country? Or, in lieu of minimum requirements, what are some specific things...
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In the UK, for example, we don't have any specific... .
Well, obviously the law in different countries varies vastly.
I also recommend Mark Pilgrim's online text - Dive into Accessibility .
It is free and it can really help.
Of Accessibility.
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