I've just been working on a page which needs to be accessible to both sighted and visually impaired users. Some elements of the content, just by the nature of relating only to visual elements, simply do not apply to people using screen readers. For example, a link opens an audio-visual presentation in a new window, but due to circumstanc...
Is the private member access at the class level or at the object level. If it is at the object level, then the following code should not compile class PrivateMember { private int i; public PrivateMember() { i = 2; } public void printI() { System.out.println("i is: "+i); } public void messWithI(PrivateMe...
Does anyone have any pointers on where to start with this? I'm using MS UI Automation to do some acceptance testing of an application, but the MenuStrip control doesn't support MSUIA, and apparently the only way to get what I want from it is Active Accessibility (MSAA). Sadly, there appears to be very little available on how to act as ...
Are any versions (current or future) of Silverlight providing accessibility models to satisfy Section 508 and other Web Accessibility Standards? Flash has some support for making controls more accessible, but even that has only come to fruition in the most recent versions. http://www.webaim.org/techniques/flash/ ...
IE 6+ had the capability to hold ctrl + mousewheel to increase and decrease the text size on the page. However, now IE 8 has replaced that functionality with the widely accepted full page zoom +-. Has anyone found a keyboard shortcut that will just increase and decrease the text size again? ...
I have application hosted Apache UNIX, and I am allowing users to access the application url from citrix environment (from citrix machine). However, currently its possible to access the url from all the connected machines. I would like to put the restriction that it should be only accessed from citrix machine. So if any one needs to ac...
When developing websites, I'd like to be able to quickly switch to "what does this look like to a person with certain types of color blindness?" I've found Visicheck, which will show you approximations of what an image or a public web page will look like. Is there something I could use on my local development before a site goes live? ...
This msdn article -- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb219746(VS.85).aspx#Disabling_Accessibility_Shortcut_Keys -- provides information for C++ programmers on how to temporarily disable the windows shortcuts for accessibility (such as holding Shift for 8 seconds, or pressing Shift more than 5 times in quick succession). Surely t...
I'm looking to change several images onclick using JQuery instead of normal JavaScript and also change the image alt attribute at the same time for accessibility. It should be something easy as I'm not looking to do some special effect on change but I still haven't find anything about it. Here is the way I was doing with JS (without ch...
I tried to write a Utility Manager application, and I am trying to test it on WinXP SP3. I added it to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Accessibility\Utility Manager, and it works well when loading the utility manager when I am logged in. However, when I try to load it from Utility Manager at startup befo...
I have a website with only home page available through simple HTTP protocol. All other pages are accessible only through HTTP over SSL(https://). I'm using CDN for home page and very happy with it. But for me it looks like using CDN for https pages is impossible because of security warnings, especially in IE. My files hosted at CDN are...
From the perspective of a cross application/applet java accessibility service, how would you link to a package but only optionally execute an action based on existence/availability of a package (being already loaded) at runtime? I think what I'm interested in here is a way to resolve the class identity crisis but rather than the issue b...
Dear all What is the difference between the 2 lines shown below?: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-GB"> <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en-GB" /> If i didn't have the meta tag, what would be the consequence? Does the meta one affect screen readers and the top one not? I'm a bit confused as to wha...
Accessibility, making content and applications accessible to people with special needs (blind, deaf, and people with cognitive impairments) is, to my mind, an important issue. Section 508 is a by-law in the USA that attempts to make sure that applications and content from government (at least) is accessible for all, irrespective of commu...
This question completes the first one that I asked here about how to change an image on click using jQuery. I forgot to say (even if I edited my post later) that I'm looking for a way to have a different alt attribute each time an image is changed by click. (This is for better accessibility and SEO optimization.) Here is the actual ht...
I have just realised that version 2.0 of the guidlines are available. Having just made my website compliant to 1.0 of the guidlines recently I'm wondering what the differences are between 1.0 and the new version of the guidelines? ...
My website is designed to meet the accessibility guidelines. I'm HOPING that this means screen readers should work well with it...... But I have two questions Is this a fair assumption to make? Are there any free/cheap screen readers clients I can use to test or online emulators? ...
Hi, I'm designing a new site for a local government department in Scotland and I want to make sure I meet the minimum accessibility level for the site. I had planned to use some jQuery effects, and also to AJAXify the content. But I realised all this JavaScript probably won't be accessible. We will be using VS2008 ASP.NET 3.5 framewo...
Apart from the web accessibility toolbar for IE and the WAVE tool. Does anyone know of any other tools to assist in web accessibility testing. I'm also looking for a screenreader emulator. ...
The site I'm maintaining has been designed pretty rigidly using pixels for font sizes, dimensions, absolute positioning etc. Now there is a feature request to add font resizing by users. While I know that is impossible without redesigning the site from the ground up using relative dimensions, I discovered that the site plays pretty nice...