HTML AccessibilityWhat is the measure of integrity in the marketing of accessibility testing tools? I would expect that while marketing bumpf extolls the virtues of a companies software, it is factual. This is not always the case. We have all witnessed the loss of trust in Accessibility Overlay companies, because their claims and the reality of what […]
Updated 06 September 2025: now links point to TetraLogical repo. In 2017 I embarked on a journey to improve and open the reporting of issues with JAWS support for Web Standards. I continued to work on this after leaving TPGi, until now… One of the resources I created and maintained while involved with the project […]
Update: 01/10/2024 Several people have questioned my reasoning for writing about the use case of popover as a tooltip, no I was not on drugs, at the time of writing I noticed that GitHub was using popover as a tooltip: During preparation for my talk at State of the Browser 2024 I started to look […]
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 […]
Image source Updated 10 July 2024 Does WCAG 2.2 Level A 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 A criteria in an abbreviated form, which is […]
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 […]