I was listening to a recent episode of Hanselminutes where Scott Hanselman was discussing accessibility in web applications and it got me thinking about accessibility in my own applications. We all understand the importance of semantic markup in our web applications as it relates to accessibility but what about other simple enhancements...
Are there any automatic, online or off, tools for testing xhtml/css for compliance with screen readers and other visual guidelines of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)? ...
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...
I'm trying to make sure my work is 508 compliant more and more these days, but noticed that VS2008 doesn't throw an error if you have a 100% table driven layout instead of css. I always thought that to be 508 compliant you needed to drop the "tables for layout" idea ... If this is true, how can I force studio to make these errors ins...
2 questions: Does using MVC make it any easier to build 508/WAI compliant sites? Anyone know of a good asp.net based CMS platform that is 508/WAI compliant or at least, tries to make it easier to build sites that are? ...
We're about to migrate an existing large ASP.NET web application to make it section-508 compliant. Are there any recommended tools and practices that can be employed for this kind of project? ...
I have a major problem with a flash based training course that is rendering extra graphics that are UNSEEN. This is realized when a screen reader is used to run 508 compliance tests on the course. There are various times when it just says 'graphic 13' and I have no way of telling what the object is that is getting this title and becoming...
How important is compliance with the various accessibility guidelines when developing a website, especially if you don't know who will be using your site? Using the HiSoftware Cynthia Says Portal, I actually checked StackOverflow and found that there are only a few warnings for Section 508 compliance, so I would assume that it is easie...
How can edit PDF that has Tags specifically created for 508 compliance? ...
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...
On a JTable in Java, how do I set the accessible text on a column, row and/or cell? Normally you would do component.getAccessibleContext().setAccessibleName(text); and that is what JAWS would read upon focusing, but a table "cell" doesn't seem to exist, and columns (from the ColumnModel) do not implement Accessible. I've tried doing so...
I have detailsview which has few dropdownlist and Checkboxes. Now I am trying to make these input fields 508 compliant. Does anyone know about this fix? ...
When using the "label for" parameter on radio buttons, to be 508 compliant, is the following correct? <label for="button one"><input type="radio" name="group1" id="r1" value="1" /> button one</label> or is this? <input type="radio" name="group1" id="r1" value="1" /><label for="button one"> button one</label> Reason I ask is that ...
My company is based in the UK, but is involved in a website for a US based company. Our website follows the WC3 standards (WCAG 2.0) for accessibility. In terms of the USA does anyone know what the law is on accessibility? (I've heard of section 508 - is this something to look at?) ...
Hi All, I am new to style sheets and Section 508.I am trying to understand it. As i understand, style sheets provide some specific set of details on how to display a web page. For example, it can mention color, font and size to be used for all elements/specific elements in a page. One of the criteria in section 508 states that, we sho...
As background, I currently develop for a university, and we have problems with departments demanding "web 2.0 content" and accessibility requirements. How do really big sites that are JavaScript based deal with 508 Compliance? Some sites degrade, and others require enabling JavaScript. How much impact does one decision have versus the...
Hello All, I am making one Web UI 508 compliant and one requirement states "working with Web UI when CSS is disabled". We have several places where we show/hide elements using style=display:inline and style=display:none and calling them accordingly using JS function calls. When i disable the CSS (using WAT2.0), the hidden elements are a...
So I ran one of my pages source code through a 508 compliance checker online, and it came back saying some of my tables are not correct, I followed the guidelines to use the scope setting but it still fails: <table> <tr bgcolor="#f6f7f7"> <td scope="col">adsf</td> <td scope="col">Type</td> <td scope="col">&n...
Do labels that I create for my form elements need to be in the <form> body? for example would this be compliant: <div style="display: none;"> <label for="somename">Some Name</label> <!-- more labels.. //--> </div> <!-- insert lots of HTML here //--> <form> <input type="text" name="somename" id="somename"> <!-- insert more elem...
I want to semi-permanently (temporarily but it lasts past a refresh or following a link) browse without CSS in IE6. There doesn't appear to be a way to permanently disable CSS without messing with the registry. Can I make a local style sheet that sets all styles to none, for example, and effectively "turns off" css while i browse? Wh...