Generally I’m a positive, optimistic guy, but sometimes fellow humans remind me how far we hungry pack animals still have to go before we can all embrace each other with love and respect. Despite all we do to make the our world more accepting, accessible, tolerant, and kind, we occasionally experience resistance. So what can […]
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My Take on the WebAIM Survey
WebAIM’s Screen Reader User Survey #4 Results are out! Like many accessibility-minded web developers I eagerly anticipate these survey results, which have been released on a roughly annual basis since 2009. Few resources have as large an impact on the work we do as this one does. The report includes a summary of key findings […]
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Good Examples of Accessible Web Sites
Last week Steven Faulkner blogged about real world ARIA landmark use. He analyzed the HTML home pages of the top 10,000 websites, looking for ARIA landmark roles. Among his findings, he discovered that 130 of these pages are using role=”main”. I’m often asked for good real-world examples of accessible websites, and this seemed like a […]
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Accessible Dropdown Menus
This blog post is old. For a more recent update on this topic, see Accessible Dropdown Menus Revisited. A couple weeks ago at the 27th Annual CSUN International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference I gave a presentation on accessible dropdown menus. In that presentation, I walked through several examples of accessible menu techniques (and […]
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Windows High Contrast and Background Images
In 2012, I resolve to think more broadly about who visits my websites. One group of users that often gets slighted, even by designers who are otherwise accessibility-conscious, is individuals who have difficulty perceiving or processing dark text on a light background. All major desktop operating systems, and some mobile operating systems, include optional high […]