As a part of my final year university project I am designing a social networking website targeted mainly to older users. I was wondering what accessibility and usability issues should be taken into account when creating a website for such users, apart from obvious ones - such as bigger font, compatibility with current standards, straight...
Consider I have a shared function:- Public Shared Function CalculateAreaFromRadius(ByVal radius As Double) As Double ' square the radius... Dim radiusSquared As Double radiusSquared = radius * radius ' multiply it by pi... Dim result As Double result = radiusSquared * Math.PI 'Wait a bit, for the sake of t...
What is preferred accessible and semantically correct method to code this type of data design? Table UL, LI DIV,SPAN For icons should i use for each place or i should is icon from CSS sprites? If we use css sprite here then how to code, and what will happen when images will be disabled ? Every link will open in new window and I hav...
Is use of position:absolute inside relative can create problems in Print ,screen-readers and for mobile users? or float + margin + Padding is still best if we need good compatibility at Screen, Printing and for screen reader and mobile users, Should i less use Position? ...
When I have a set of either check boxes or radio buttons I often need to have an Other choice. This check box or radio button is very often accompanied by a text box where the user is supposed to fill out what this Other is. How do you usually handle this set up? What kind of markup do you use? What do you require in your validation? Do...
Given the following MVC mark-up: <p> <label for="forenamesLabel">Forename(s):</label> <%: Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.ConsultantRegistrationDTO.Forenames) %> <%: Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.ConsultantRegistrationDTO.Forenames, "*") %> </p> How is it possible for me to accurately set the ...
If so, how do you (if you guys are around) handle the issue? I just heard a story today about a Japanese smoke alarm for deaf people that uses the smell of wasabe to wake them, so I got curious. ...
Today i found a good example to make whole div clickable in coolway. http://is.gd/b9xQm Is there a way to make this effect compatible with Screen-reader and keyboard user and even at least accessible if JS disabled (using css hover). Atleast link should be shown somewhere if JS is disabled. ...
If I have a class that contains properties with private set and protected set accessibility levels set, will I be able to change those properties on another instance of the same class? Note: I'm not on a machine which I can test this on right now, otherwise I'd just run the code below. For instance: public class Foo { public strin...
I wan to check whole site's <img> image's for alt text. I want to get a report of, What is written in alt text or alt is defined or not from all images being used on whole site in every page. Is it possible to get report like this? after getting report i will put alt or if alt is already added but blank, then will write description text...
I'm running into an issue with private setters when using NHibernate and lazy-loading. Let's say I have a class that looks like this: public class User { public virtual int Foo {get; private set;} public virtual IList<User> Friends {get; set;} public virtual void SetFirstFriendsFoo() { // This line works in a un...
How to show this type of reminder warning to user (mainly i need this for screen reader user), if user click on link which will open in new window? Is my wording ok, please suggest if it can be better ? I want to show this message for any link of website or file like PDF, DOC etc. which is opening in new window? Sometime user clicks mi...
Hello! I use Windows XP Rus and want to know, what name has Cursor.name property in MS Accessibility for cursor when it looks like hand in Windows XP En. ...
I need to be able to grant viewing access to specific nodes on my site to a specific user but not anonymous users, and then the rest of the site open to all. ...
Example <span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffd700">Background color</span> How screen reader handle inline css ? is there any other cons of inline CSS except css management? Inline styles are valid also . i tested with W3C Validator and with XHTML 1.0 Strict doctype? <p><span style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">Left indent</span></p> ...
Services & Products or Services & Products Update: How popular screen readers and text only browsers will handle &? ...
Hey All, So I am embedding a PDF file on my page: <embed src="http://www.mywebsite.com/files/ebook.pdf" width="500" height="375"> Is there anyway to prevent any and all access to that file except for when it is being accessed via this embed? Thanks! ...
I just came up with this, it seems to work in all modern browsers, I just tested it then on (IE8/compatibility, Chrome, Safari, Moz) HTML <img id="my_image" alt="my text" src="images/small_transparent.gif" /> CSS #my_image{ background-image:url('images/my_image.png'); width:100px; height:100px;} Pro's: image alt text is be...
Hi, I'm setting up a form in which multiple entries can potentially be made (via an Add more button) for one of the qestions. I'm trying to figure out the best way to make this accessible without javascript and also to allow the input fields to be shown dynamically each time the Add button is clicked. There are 3 pieces of data i need to...
Is it necessary to have at least one H1 in any web page? in terms of accessibility, semantics and SEO. ...