accessibility

How to judge what should be more accessible markup <table> ,<div> and <ul><li> if design has table like data?

for example what is the accessible way to code this design. currently my company's CMS producing this HTML for this design <div id="presentationsContainer"> <div class="ItemsContainer"> <div class="presentationsItemContainer"> <div class="TitleContainer"> Presentation October 20...

How to decide when to use <th> or when not? in <table>.

Like for this code <table id="presentationsContainer"> <tr> <td class="main" width="60%">Presentation October 2009</td> <td class="dl" width="20%">Download pdf</td> <td class="dl" width="20%">Download ppt</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="main" width="60%">Presentation October 2009</td> <td class="dl" width="20%">Down...

Mac / Cocoa - Getting a list of windows using Accessibility API

(Re-written for clarity} I want to use the Accessibility API to get a list of all windows for a given application (external). It looks like I should use The goal is to check if a certain window is open. First I check that the application is running (using [NSWorkspace runningApplications] and checking each one), and then I want to ...

Display of colorblind images

Quick question: At this website here http://www.vischeck.com/examples/ there are a few pictures of numbers hidden within another color to test for color blindness. Is there any way that these images can be generated algorithmically? ...

inner DIV not accessible using document.getElementById

Hi, see below html <Div id="one"> <Div id="two"> </Div> </Div> when i am accessing div "two" with "document.getElementById("two")...am getting null. ...

Can I store a IAccessible object for later use in my program?

I have a program that uses MSAA to find a control. Then I want to save that pointer so that later I can get the accessible object again but it never works. Can you store these pointers? ...

Setting the front most window using accessibility API

I want to set a certain window, from an external app (for example textedit), to be front most. I can successfully get a reference to the app itself using GetFrontProcess, and check whether it is front most. If it is not, I can use setFrontProcess to make it focussed. I can then use the the accessibility API to examine all the windows u...

Accessibility API - Setting keyboard focus to a specific element

Using the accessibility API, I am drilling down through a series of elements and finding a specific AXUIElementRef I am interested in (all in an external application). How do I check if this element currently has keyboard focus? And if not, how do I set it? Something similar to using AXUIElementSetAttributeValue to set the kAXMainAttr...

What are cons to use % over em in terms of accessibility?

What are cons to use % over em in terms of accessibility? ...

is font/text sizing in % more accessible and manageble than em ?

Both article are proving this. http://www.kyleschaeffer.com/best-practices/css-font-size-em-vs-px-vs-pt-vs/ http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/relative/ I want to know SO users view? ...

Is the use of relative values in font sizing for accessibility still useful in general, or only for IE6?

All other browsers (not IE6) are scaling the size of the whole layout in px. So what's the purpose to use em and % if we are not thinking about IE6? ...

Adding strong emphasis to an img tag. Semantics

Hi there. I'm actually coding a website and a doubt came to me. I have a list of images (it's an artist portfolio, so it should be images), some of which have a "Featured" badge. Is it semantically correct to wrap the img into a strong tag instead of using a class="featured"? Will it add strong emphasis to the image? Reading the W3C sp...

more than one table with th having duplicated ids

I was wondering if I could have more than one tables like below. If you notice, I have applied th with the id="id", and id="name". so If have the more than one tables then, there will be many ths with the same id. <table> <thead> <tr><th id="id"></th><th id="name"></th></tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr><td headers="...

Should we try to use all H1 to H6 in a website?

Should we use all H1 to H6 in a website? i use h1 to h2 usually. now how to judge and decide where to use H3 to h6. should we use like this h3 {display:inline} <div id="content"> <h3> some text in bold:</h3> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dol...

Should i repeat person name in alt text of <img> if name is already in source under image?

if I'm already having person name under/over image then should i use same name in ALT text? <p><img width="125" height="157" alt="George Washington" src="media/gw.jpg"><span>George Washington</span><p> <p><span>George Washington</span> <img width="125" height="157" alt="George Washington" src="media/gw.jpg"><p> Should i repeat <s...

Is it still true, to make cross broswer layouts for desktop browsers using table+css is easier then div+css?

My one of web designer friend still making sites with table but he use css very nicely and I also use css nicely but with <div> and i face cross browser problem in layout more than my friend. and i given some reason to my friend about cons of <table>. read my whole discussion with friend? I - you site will be problematic with screen r...

Can I make a local style sheet that essentially removes all CSS from pages I visit?

I want to semi-permanently (temporarily but it lasts past a refresh or following a link) browse without CSS in IE6. There doesn't appear to be a way to permanently disable CSS without messing with the registry. Can I make a local style sheet that sets all styles to none, for example, and effectively "turns off" css while i browse? Wh...

Should i use Width, height, margin, padding, line-height in em also if i'm using em for text sizing?

Should i use Width, height, margin, padding, line-height in em also if i'm using em for text sizing? is it good for accessibility? ...

What is the benefit to add empty alt=""? and which alt should be used this alt="" or alt=" " ?

What is the benefit to add null alt=""? is it only to pass validation or it has more reason and how it should be write? like this, no space alt="" or this with one blank space alt=" " ...

Keyboard Focus Breaking with Radio Button Group

It seems simple, but this has been a bit of a headscratcher for me. Given the following (valid xhtml transitional) code: <form action="weird.html"> <label for="test1">T1</label> <input type="radio" id="test1" name="test" value="1" /> <label for="test2">T2</label> <input type="radio" id="test...