Category Archives: Accessibility
Browser Zoom Comparison
There are several options available for increasing the apparent size of web pages, from simple increases in text size, to full screen magnification. Focusing on browsers, I’ll examine what options suit different people, and what implications this can have for web development.
WYSIWYG editor spec – images
Adding images in an easy and accessible way is a vital part of a modern WYSIWYG editor, and one of the things the almost all of the implementations I've come across get wrong. There are several levels of implementation, from adding images from other locations, to creating and choosing from a library of images and other assets. Internet Apps Roadmap – Questions
The Roadmap for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)
outlines the technologies to map controls, AJAX live regions, and events to accessibility APIs, including custom controls used for Rich Internet Applications.This post just draws attention to things I (and Iperhaps other people) could do with some further explanation on.
Image replacement and Voiceover
There was a question on the Voiceover list recently about links just being read out as ‘link’ on a particular site: freeverse. It turned out to be due to an image replacement technique. Accessibility or Help links?
You see a lot of links on sites which are for "Accessibility", to provide both help for those with accessibility issues, and state what levels of accessibility the site is aiming for. However, I believe that this content should be split up between two different pages.
WYSIWYG editors spec – adding structural code
With a WYSIWYG interface, there has to be an area that appears as it will when published, which means to change bits within it, you need one or more toolbars. This is an exploration of what those toolbars should do. Future of web accessibility
Trenton Moss wrote up his thoughts on the future of accessibility. The points in the main section of the article are good, but I don't think they provide sufficient basis for the predictions made. I could be reading too much into a brief article, as the problems highlighted are certainly problems now, but they are not without solutions in sight.
WYSIWYG editors spec – Importing CSS
The second building block of a modern WYSIWYG editor is how the styles are defined and added. Styles should be applied by class to standard HTML, but what kind of import methods would be best, and how would they surface in the interface? Captions vs subtitles
In a short break from the editor series, and in the spirit of
If you write it down you'll remember it, I'm going to risk a mauling by defining captions and sub-titles for video.
WYSIWYG editor spec – allowed HTML
Starting from the building blocks, what should an editor allow? Most of the browser based editors allow people to edit the source HTML. To make sure the code stays valid, the editor will have to filter what gets saved, so what HTML should it allow?