Autumn is hands-down my favorite season. It’s time to throw on a sweater and an extra comforter, sip hot apple cider, and make big pots of scrumptious and spicy vegetarian chili. Autumn is also the season in which three of my four favorite conferences are held. I look forward each year to networking with others […]
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The Quest for an Accessible Flash MP3 Player
This was my second in a series of blog posts on creating an accessible HTML5 audio player. If you’re more interested in outcome than process, see the article Putting it all together: Accessible HTML5 Audio Player with Yahoo! Media Fallback. In my previous blog post, I described how I created an accessible custom HTML5 audio […]
This was my first in a series of blog posts on creating an accessible HTML5 audio player. If you’re more interested in outcome than process, see the article Putting it all together: Accessible HTML5 Audio Player with Yahoo! Media Fallback. HTML5 introduces the <audio> and <video> elements, which enable web browsers to natively support media […]
In HTML, the accesskey attribute serves as a hotkey for triggering or giving focus to an element on a web page. Typically it’s used in combination with one or more additional keys, and each browser defines those differently (there’s a list on the Wikipedia Accesskey page). Its use is somewhat controversial, since it’s impossible to […]
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Experiments With Language and Accessibility
The 2010 FIFA World Cup championship match is only a few hours away. For over a month now, Earth has been buzzing with the ambient hum of vuvuzelas, and football(soccer)-related conversations have spanned the globe in every major language. I watched some of this conversation on Twitter, where at times the #worldcup backchannel was racking […]