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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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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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Hi,
I am about to start developing a desktop application, and I am interested in making the application both usable and accessible for end users. Can anyone suggest online resources that offer guidance for developing usable desktop applications? In particular...
Started by MagicAndi on
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I forgot where, but these are hints I've learned on how to test... .
As for Accessibility, I haven't read through all of it, but from small exerpts I blieve that real experts have written W IA-ARIA, the W3C take on accessibility .
Usability.
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Is there a way to convert an image on the fly to "Red on Black" for accessibility? I have pictures that I want to stream to the iphone. Viewing them at night, Red on Black is better for viewing.
Started by BlindingDawn on
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I'm not sure how you have your current images implemented, but before they load you could check for BOOL isNightTime , and if it returns... .
Answer: You're much better off making your own night friendly images, and swapping those out along with text color, etc .
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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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