I’m honored to be the closing plenary speaker at AHEAD 2014, the annual conference of the Association on Higher Education and Disability. Thinking back to a previous AHEAD conference, I recall a plenary speaker who proudly announced that he didn’t have any slides; he would just be talking. This proclamation was met with applause; even […]
In my recent blog post on Converting Word to PDF or HTML, I described some confusion that stems from Microsoft Word’s having two fields, Title and Description, for entering alt text for images. Unbeknownst to me at the time, Greg Kraus of NC State had recently written a similar blog post in which he echoed […]
Today I’m celebrating Independence Day by declaring independence from presentational HTML markup! In my previous blog post I explored strategies for converting Microsoft Word docs to accessible PDF and HTML. For HTML, I found that Word produces a relatively clean HTML file if you save to “Web page, filtered” in Word 2010 or 2013 for […]
I write a lot. I’m writing this blog post in the rich text editor that’s provided with WordPress, and I trust it will output nice clean HTML. This is good way of working, but often my writing involves much lengthier documents, and often I’m writing in collaboration with others. The tool of choice for these […]
Back in March 2012 I wrote a blog post titled Accessible Dropdown Menus summarizing my observations with various accessible dropdown menu models, including Suckerfish, Son of Suckerfish, Superfish, Dropper Dropdown, UDM4, Simply Accessible, YUI MenuNav Node Plugin, and the Menubar widget example developed by the Open Ajax Alliance. Of all these, I liked the Open […]