The Situation I have an area of the screen that can be shown and hidden via JavaScript (something like "show/hide advanced search options"). Inside this area there are form elements (select, checkbox, etc). For users using assistive technology like a screen-reader (in this case JAWS), we need to link these form elements with a label or ...
As a web developer, a number of the projects I work on fall under government umbrellas and hence are subject to 508 Accessibility laws, and sometimes W3C accessibility guidelines. To what extent can Javascript be used while still meeting these requirements? Along these lines, to what extent is Javascript, specifically AJAX and using pac...
As a web developer, a number of the projects I work on fall under government umbrellas and hence are subject to 508 Accessibility laws, and sometimes W3C accessibility guidelines. To what extent can Flash be used while still meeting these requirements? For using javascript, the mantra is "Degrade gracefully" by providing the same conten...
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...
Which tools is Best to make Web standards, W3C validate and Accessible site ? open source or commercial? ...
I'm working on making a SWF application accessible for visually impaired people who use JAWS or Windows Eyes. I installed both JAWS and Windows Eyes demo versions. When running my swf (locally) in a browser on a html page, Capabilities.hasAccessibility turns out true, but Accessibility.active turns out false, every time - even when che...
Does anyone know how the various screen readers interact with a modal window, ie: Thickbox? Do the contents of the modal gain the reader's focus after they click on it? ...
What is the difference between these three for screen reader users? ...
How much easier is it for screen readers to handle <div> based websites as opposed to older <table> based websites, and why are they worse? ...
If i made a site and site looking well in all a grade browsers but if site shows some errors in both XHTML and CSS validation then is there any benefit to solve those errors? Is site with 10 validation errors better than site with 35 validation errors or both are same for search engine? Does search engine read css file? Does CSS valida...
If i have same navigation on 2 places in every page , one is in dropdown and again is in left sider bar will it create difficulties for screen reader user? ...
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...
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? ...
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...
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...
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...
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=" " ...
When error message will come on validation if use have done something wrong then that error should be read by screen reader? Any Screen reader compatible, accessible, unobtrusive jquery form validation plugin? and how user will know which form field is mandatory? my question is not about to make form with fieldset, legend, and label? ...
Is there some way, through either JAWS scripting or HTML, to force JAWS to refresh its virtual screen buffer (normally Ins + Esc)? I'm working on an AJAX-heavy web application that requires JAWS support, but the users don't particularly like the solution "hit Ins+Esc after performing any action to catch possible changes". ...
Does it matter <strong> in <em> <p><strong><em>Some text</em></strong></p> or <em> in <strong>? <p><em><strong>Some text</strong></em></p> Which is semantically correct and more accessible? Update: How screen reader would behave in both situation? ...