Possible Duplicate: Is it ok to use <strong> in place of <b> blindly ? When to use <strong> and when to use <b> or other ways to give look of bold? strong has semantic value ( and useful for screen reader while b is presentation (and even valid in HTML 5). my question is not what is the difference between strong and b. The q...
If I'm adding content in page through JavaScript will it be crawl-able by Search engine spider and accessible by screen reader. For example this var tip = "<p>Most computers will open PDF documents "; tip += "automatically, but you may"; tip += "need to download <a title='Link to Adobe website-opens in a new window'"; tip +=" href='htt...
Do search engines and/or screen readers give any importance to the new tags in HTML5? Sometimes I think I will use HTML5 with the help of JavaScript, but what is the benefit if search engines and/or screen readers will not understand the new tags? <header> and <div class="header"> are the same thing if <header> has no benefit for SEO a...
I've spent a lot of time fighting with WiX to make an installer that works well with a screen reader. I want the Windows Screen Reader to read the labels and control names out in a sensible and predictable manner, but my findings are that WiX is not very good at producing installers that "sound" right. Are there best practices or sample...
When a web page is loaded, screen readers (like the one that comes with OS X, or JAWS on Windows) will read the content of the whole page. But say your page is dynamic, and as users performing an action, new content gets added to the page. For the sake of simplicity, say you display a message somewhere in a <span>. How can you get the sc...
The web site that we're writing needs to be "Accessible". The trouble is, while we understand the general conepts (semantic latout, alt text on images, light on Javascript, etc etc), we don't really have much knowledge of what screen reader products or other accessible browser are actually on the market and/or in general use, nor how to ...
Instead of .show()'ing and .hide()'ing (or .toggle()'ing for that matter), is there any way to "toggle" a .remove() function? I realize .remove() literally removes elements from the DOM, so it sounds difficult to magically replace the removed elements once they're gone, but is there a way of faking it? Note: They must be removed from t...
I'm looking for a easy to use jQuery form validation plugin, which give validation error as a "Alert". Because alert is the best way to inform screen reader users about errors. ...