Author: stevef

I wuz reviewing a best practice issue being developed for TetraLogical and wanted to check the verascity of a statement it contained. the information provided in the title attribute is not accessible to users navigating with a keyboard or touch devices, as they cannot hover over elements to view the content. I know this was true […]

This is a shout out to David MacDonald, who while absent of late due to family responsibilities, has been a constant presence in the W3C WAI working groups and contributing to accessibility web standards for many a year. Besides working tirelessly to improve accessibility standards he also wrote and produced the iconic song about WCAG […]

The good people of Dunnington gather around their communal tele-visual apparatus to learn of HTML usability blights from a young Dr Swallow. In 2014 I wrote an article What ARIA does not do It stated: ARIA is a set of attributes that can be added to HTML elements (and other markup languages) to communicate accessibility role, state, name […]

Self portrait of Peak WCAG Trash Panda Patrick Lauke Does WCAG 2.2 Level AA apply to Native apps? yes, mostly How/where it (non-normatively) applies is detailed in Guidance on Applying WCAG 2 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies (WCAG2ICT) Below is what I think is the pertinent information for Level AA criteria in an abbreviated form, which […]

Street art by Dotmaster Owned control You ever get the feeling that some big corporations want you to abandon the open web, in favour of the walled gardens of their apps? One method they use to get your asses under their control is to constantly tempt you with FOMO (fear of missing out): You ain’t […]

Interviewed by Mat Marquis Earlier in 2024 I was approached by Mat Marquis to answer some questions on HTML headings. At the time I was only vaguely aware that the interview would become part of a printed Zine (pleasant surprise face), published by Mat with profits going to support Trans Lifeline. So waste no time […]

AI can help by providing mostly accurate descriptions of images on web pages. This can be especially helpful when the image has not been provided with a text alternative, but is visible on the page. For example it is marked up with an empty alt no alt or aria-hidden=true or role=presentation A problem is that […]

Updated: 22 May 2024 aria-label is one of a number of secondary methods to label native HTML UI elements. It works particularly well on interactive elements, it also works well on most block level elements old skool term that have explicitly or implicitly defined structural roles. It works less well or not at all on […]

I learned that Accessibility Ant is not what I thought it was CSUN conference is a pilgrimage, a place where the people of disability, accessibility and the #a11yIndustry meet to talk lived reality, push abstracted accessibility solutions and products. I have been attending CSUN regularly since 2007. This year was the first time I traveled […]