Every little helps?If you shop at Tesco, you’ll know that “every little helps”. If you’re one of their blind or partially sighted online customers though, you might be forgiven for thinking otherwise. As Tesco close their access site and move people over to their new primary website, there are growing concerns about how accessibility has been factored [...]
BS8878 Web accessibility code of practice consultationIt’s been 18 months since BS8878 first went out for public consultation. At the time, this forthcoming web accessibility code of practice from the British Standards Institution (BSI) received an unprecedented amount of feedback. Now a second draft is available for public consultation, and this is where we need your help!
What is an Accessibility Audit?An accessibility audit is a thorough evaluation of your website using recognised guidelines and metrics. There are a lot of different approaches to doing an accessibility audit; this article gives you the low-down on exactly what you need to know.
What are Transcripts?Whether you broadcast yourself on YouTube, or showcase yourself on Vimeo, multimedia content is the way to go. It’s engaging, it’s captivating, and the ultimate aim is to make it go viral. Knowing about audio description, captions and transcripts, is the way to reach an even wider audience. In the second of a series of [...]
What is Audio Description?Multimedia content is everywhere on the web. YouTube has single handedly transformed it into a global pastime, and everybody’s at it. Armed with a webcam and a bright idea, everyone’s free to broadcast themselves. Knowing about audio description, captions and transcripts, is the key to accessible multimedia. In the first of a series of articles [...]
Screen Readers And WAI-ARIA Landmark RolesAfter my post about WAI-ARIA document landmark roles, someone asked me why they were so helpful to screen reader users. After all, don’t screen readers already provide shortcut keys for navigating through web pages?
WAI-ARIA Document Landmark RolesThe Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) specification defines a set of roles known as document landmarks. They can be used to programmatically identify key areas of content on a page, which means they can be interpreted by access technologies such as screen readers.
Accessible Twitter: Advancement through technologyEver wondered what “Vorsprung durch technik” means? If you remember the Audi adverts in the UK from the 1990s, you’ll know it stands for excellent design and precision engineering. It actually translates as “Advancement through technology”, a concept that neatly sums up Dennis Lembree’s work on Accessible Twitter.
