Author: stevef

I have known Cynthia Shelly since the early days of the HTML Accessibility API Mappings 1.0 when we were co-editors. Cynthia has had a long career in accessibility, she worked at Microsoft on the initial Edge browser engine, overseeing the accessibility implementation of Microsoft UI Automation (UIA) Developed an Accessibility program while working at Starbucks. […]

I had the pleasure of chatting with Crystal Preston Watson recently. Despite the shambolic nature of my recording/editing it worked out OK. Transcript music plays for 1 minute: Devo Corporate Anthem say it. I just keep saying it so that way I know. There was this guy that, I mean, I live in a block […]

10-17 November 2025 Each week I get a ton of mailing list emails and a load of github emails related to issues and discussions going in the W3C Web Standards Cauldron of words (AKA Web Accessibility Initiative). A few bubble up and pique my interest: I have only looked at one source so far, but […]

3-9 November 2025 Each week I get a ton of mailing list emails and a load of github emails related to issues and discussions going in the W3C Web Standards Cauldron of words (AKA Web Accessibility Initiative). A few bubble up and pique my interest: Understanding SC 1.4.10: Reflow (Level AA) (Updated September 2025, so looks […]

FIRESIDE CHAT – PATRICK H. LAUKE 4/11/2025 This is the first in a series of, who knows what length, conversations with some of the people of accessibility. Patrick kindly agreed to be my guinea pig. Transcripts transcript Hello, Patrick. Welcome. Welcome to the fireside chat, the resurrection. Why is it the resurrection? Because it was […]

brief history 1996-2000: worked mainly as a front end developer for hire 2001-2006: worked as an accessibility specialist for Vision Australia Conducted Accessibility Assessments using WCAG 1.0 as a baseline Developed the Web Accessibility Toolbar to aid in manual testing of acessibillity of web page UI Developed (with much help) the original Colour Contrast Analyser […]

Original Atlas browser logo Goatse by Adrian Shat advice One of the issues that I found most peturbing from the Atlas browser FAQ’s for front end developers was the advice to use ARIA: ChatGPT Atlas uses ARIA tags[sic]—the same labels and roles that support screen readers—to interpret page structure and interactive elements. To improve compatibility, […]

There is a new browser in town: ChatGPT Atlas browser Given OpenAI’s general flakiness when it comes to UI design, accessibility and usability, I installed the browser with little enthusiasm as I felt it was going to be crap accessibility wise. But we can always hope… It is a closed source browser (I believe), using […]

Updated 24 September 2025 – repointed links to new home Below is a list of links to each of the HTML elements in the screen-reader-HTML-support tables following an element named link will display the Screen Reader HTML Support – Lookup app with the data for that element. This works due to each link having the […]

last updated 24 September 2025 Kazuhito Kidachi asked for a way to contrast and compare support across screen readers in the HTML support tables I took some time over the weekend to create a Lookup app (of sorts) What it does is take the data in the JAWS/NVDA/VoiceOver HTML support tables being published by TetraLogical […]