Can we use any extension in or only HTML is allowed by W3C? and how LONGDESC link should be open , only as new windows or can we open Longdesc url in popup or lightbox? Does LONGDESC have any benefit for Site SEO? ...
How long can a URL be? Before bad for SEO ...
I've been researching on building web applications in a true client-server fashion. This type of architecture basically consists of : A thin server, merely a headless api that : handles security concerns processes core business logic provides data persistence A fat client, with a desktop-like design that : caches data, and ...
See place 1,2 and 3. <body> <Place 1> <div id="container"> <Place 2> <div id="header"> <Place 3> <div id="logo"> </div> </div> </div> </body> ...
Does anybody know about guide lines, web sites, etc. that describe, what one should keep in mind, if one is programming for a target audience that includes handicapped or older people? Or should one make no difference? ...
Hi All, I am quite interested in exploring accessibility in forms and accessibility in general. Is it against the rules to use an image as a label if the image also has an alt tag representing the the label? Would this be ok? If not what is the best approach? I have a small form for clients to enter their links to the social sites the...
How to prevent users from resizing the font on my web site? ...
I have 2 buttons next to a textbox and another textbox after the 2 buttons. The tabindex for the first textbox is 1000, the first button is 1001 and the second button is 1002. The second textbox has a tabindex of 1003. When I press tab, the tabindex works fine in all browsers except for Safari, where it immediately moves from the firs...
Hi Does anyone have any suggestions on how to generate accessible PDFs (including images) from HTML? The PDFs need to look like the original HTML, including positions of images etc. Any special HTML structure required to help make the final PDF accessible? I've seen questions about creating PDFS none of them specifically address the ...
Hi Guys I'm nearing the completion of migrating our existing website to a CMS and I've just finished creating all the various contact forms. The CMS I'm using has CAPTCHA built into it's form builder, which is great, but the only method available is the "decipher-the-noisy-image" method. This approach works well, but it limits access f...
Should I avoid JavaScript , jQuery, flash, Ajax, Silverlight if i want to make my site cross platform compatible (PC, iPHONE other mobiles, PDA) and Accessible(screen reader compatible)? Should i only use xhtml css with server side language for wider accessibility? and for PC pr MAC i made everything first for Firefox so for mobile whi...
If you take this example, <a name="xxx"></a> ... is this ok when creating an anchor? I have always preferred to use an already created tag for my destinations. ...
I have an wrapping object array -in fact a matrix- which includes a checkbox, I want to detect this object's position in array when included checkbox's state changes public class visualCell implements ItemSelectable{ private JCheckBox checkBox; private int row; private int col; } when a checkbox changes it's state, I want ...
Has anyone got an thoughts on how to handle theming a WSS site for a single user who is visually impaired ... she uses high contrast settings for Word, etc. But still leave the usual theme for everyone else ...
Is iframe should not be used ever? how screen reader behaves with iframed content? Without iframe how we can embed any PHP page into asp.net based site? What are cross browser alternatives? ...
Hi, I am about to start developing a desktop application, and I am interested in making the application both usable and accessible for end users. Can anyone suggest online resources that offer guidance for developing usable desktop applications? In particular, I would be interested in learning about how to test desktop applications f...
I have a Ruby script that I built in TextMate and can successfully run in TextMate. I can also successfully run this script straight from the terminal. The script has this chunk of code in it: # Get the XML file puts 'Opening the file' open("messages.xml", "r") do |f| puts 'File is opened' theXML = Hpricot::XML(f) puts 'Tryin...
Forgetting about things that pertain exclusively to the developer like code maintainability and religion wars about semantics and what-not, my question is: what real world problems does using tables present to the user? Are there device that cannot understand a tabled layout properly? Does it decrease the page's relevance on search engin...
Is there a default, standard, recommended or well known icon to denote that a link will open a new browser window? This is for web accessiblity reasons. Or is it basically a free for all? I realise that those that will get the most use out of them (using screen readers) will not even care what the image looks like, and be more interes...
I've been playing around with the HTML5 video tag and I'm puzzled as to how best to degrade when you can't support a codec? For older browsers (or IE) that don't support the video tag at all this quite is straight forward: <video width="320" height="240"> <source src="vid.ogv" type='video/ogg'> <source src="vid.mp4" type='video/mp...