Category Archives: Accessibility
Focus Appearance thoughts
I think it is fair to say that some folks aren’t very happy with the focus-appearance criterion proposed in WCAG 2.2. Hidde thought it adds too much complexity, and Eric didn’t rate it.
I think everyone sees the value of having good focus indicators, so I’m taking the comments …
WCAG – Priority of Constituencies
Overlay comments
There was a W3C session called “Accessibility at the Edge“, essentially trying to tackle the technical aspects of accessibility overlays. I’ll add links to the session and video if & when that is published.
I just wanted to capture my main point:
…From a first principles point of
Accessibility auditing and pushing for more
Oddities in color perception

Pixels vs Ems commentary
Firefox zoom preferences
Firefox’s default zoom preferences are ok, but if you want what Chrome & Edge provide (more than 300% zoom), you need to fiddle with it.
Increasing the maximum zoomIn the about:config
page, you can increase the maximum zoom level from 300% with two values:
zoom.maxPercent
, and set to… Is text sizing dead?
I was listening to Shop Talk show 287, where Chris and Dave were wondering about the old mantras about text-sizing / media queries not being in pixels, I think I can help with this.
I’m one of the many people working on WCAG 2.1, and specifically with people …
EME Misdirection
The EFF post on EME is an awesome bit of misdirection.
Everything it says about DRM is true. Almost everything it says about the W3C is either false or misdirection, applying one set of arguments to another target. (Some background on EME if this doesn’t make any sense.)
I …
London Accessibility Meetup #6
I attended the 6th London Accessibility meetup, and the 1st organised by Alistair Duggin. It was a great event, with three speakers (for two talks). I took some rough notes that might be useful until the videos are published.
Both talks are about incorporating accessibility at large organisations, the …