Archive for the ‘Accessibility’ Category

ARIA, feature detection, and the lowest common denominator

For the past couple of months I’ve been doing a lot of work with accessibility.  Parts of the design of the website I’m working on are very dynamic, with ajax and inline changes and dialogs.  It’s relatively easy to get these things to be keyboard accessible (though that has its difficulties, too, perhaps that’s another [...]

Design guide for aural css?

I’ve been thinking a lot about the aural css properties today–things like azimuth, pitch, voice-family, etc. that are theoretically available to screen readers.  Visual design guides are all over the place, a lot of them adapted from or comparing the web to print media.  They say things like “your lines shouldn’t be longer than X [...]