Are there any screen readers out now that support CSS3 text-to-speech attributes like richness, pause or pitch? If there's competition, which one is more popular? Are there varying levels of standards compliance? ...
On my Windows there are at least keyboard sets, for completely different languages. If, for example, I click Alt-T in Firefox, the Tools menu will open, both if the keyboard layout is Hebrew or English. (Mozilla's behavior is inconsistent in that respect, but forget it for now). When building a wxWidgets applications, the language must...
I have a WinForms app, and I can't seem to access the text of a ToolStripStatusLabel through UIAutomation. Microsoft implies that the support for StatusStrips (and presumably items within them) is limited, but this seems like a basic enough use case that it should work. The control shows up with ControlType.Edit in UISpy, and appears to...
Is there a good response to the statement "Best viewed in x"? Specifically, I was trying to access a site and the site was horribly broken on Webkit browsers. I sent an email to the webmaster including screenshots. The webmaster responded to me that the site "is best viewed in Internet Explorer." Now there are some other issues with th...
I'm trying to implement a very, very simple accessibility test for Swing so I can get a handle on how big a piece of work it will be to provide accessibility support for our already established Swing application. I have the most simple Swing program, and I'm using Narrator in Windows Vista to attempt to screen-read its GUI. public clas...
I am making a form to search for colleges based on athletic programs offered and the division of the sport. I have laid the form out in a table. The "all divisions" checkbox selects all the checkboxes for that sport. I know screen readers have both forms and tables mode. Is my current design accessible or should I add labels for each i...
Which tools is Best to make Web standards, W3C validate and Accessible site ? open source or commercial? ...
This is for an "Add to basket" control for which one of my colleagues has designed a nice graphic. Obviously it should generate a post request, which a simple hyperlink isn't going to do. Amazon achieves it using an image input. But what are the pros and cons of <input type="image" src="atb.png" alt="Add to Basket" /> versus <butt...
I'm testing my company's established Swing application for accessibility issues. With high contrast mode enabled on my PC certain parts of this application are rendered properly (white-on-black) and some incorrectly (black-on-white). The bits that are correct are the native components (JButton, JLabel and whatnot) and third party compo...
We have to access a network UNC share which is say allowing access to USER1. Our exe is running with LOCAL SYSTEM account. In the exe, we do Impersonation with "USER1" credentials so that exe can access UNC share. But after doing the impersonation, we are still getting error "Access denied" while accessing that UNC share. After the impe...
How can I hide an HTML form legend from visual browsers, using CSS, in an accessible way? legend { display: none; } is not an option because, as I understand it, this will 'hide' the legend from screen readers. Other attempts I've made do not remove the legend from the layout - i.e. it continues to take up space. ...
I have a Java application using the Substance LookAndFeel with Windows as the the target platform and I want to increase the DPI setting of my application without changing the system setting. I want to do this because I don't want to force the user to restart Windows and because many Windows applications seem to have problems with very ...
I am attempting to add section 508 (Accessibility) compliance to an application built on Actionscript 3. We have popups triggered by HTML links in text. One of the requirements of the section 508 standard is that the entire application be navigable with the keyboard, including any uses of the anchor tag in the text. How do I assign fo...
How compatible / compliant is sharepoint with current accessibility rules. Also how compliant is it with the UK disability act? ...
I've spend a fair amount of time on website optimization (YSlow, Google's Page Speed, etc), and now I'm thinking more and more about improving the accessibility of my websites. However, it seems like that they are competing interests at times. If I include separate style sheets for screen readers, mobile devices, etc, those are additio...
i work at a place where we build applications that process and store sensitive data. we have 3 environments. Dev, UAT / QA (user acceptant testing) and Production the developers at my work have no access to UAT or Production and have limited access to Dev. All we can do in dev is connect to a dev DB server . we have no access to the de...
i have 2 functions in a class, in the first one i have something like that: public function func1() { $test = array(1,2,3); return $test; } how to copy the contents from $test in the second function? public function func2() { $newarray = $this->func1->test; print_r($newarray); } Sorry, but i have really no idea, how to make this :...
I'm trying to use the Java Access Bridge to get information about Swing components from inside a C++ app. However, none of the callbacks I register ever get called. I tried enuming the windows an then calling IsJavaWindow() on each handle, but it always returns false. Any ideas on why it apparently is not working? I presume it's a pr...
Hi, We are working on a website that has tons of images and one of the requirement is to have ALT text for each image (JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF etc). So whenever the HTML shows and image the ALT text for that image is also written to HTML along with IMG SRC. After our discussion with developers the solutions that turned up are 1) Create a...
Hi, What is the "best practice" (accessibility/usability-wise) for resizing text with Javascript? My current solution is that for when the user clicks the resize link it adds an extra class to the body tag. It also sets a cookie and then when the page is loaded - onLoad() - it reads the cookie and reapplys the body class tag again if...