Monthly Archives: December 2008

Todd Kloots provides valuable information on setting up JAWS, Window Eyes and NVDA in his article Configuring Your Machine For Testing With A Screen Reader.

Posted on December 31, 2008 by Steve Faulkner | Comments Off

Color Contrast Analyzer 2.2 – updated contrast ratio

Posted on December 15, 2008 by Steve Faulkner

The English version of the Color Contrast Analyzer and the German, French, Czech, and Italian versions for Windows have been updated, MACÂ version all languages updated, to reflect the change in the ratio at which color combinations are deemed to … Continue reading →

Posted in accessibility testing, contrast analyser, Standards, tools, W3C, WAT-C, WCAG 2.0, Web Accessibility | Comments Off

Testing ARIA User Input control’s navigation support.

Posted on December 9, 2008 by Steve Faulkner

Assistive technology such as screen readers provide keyboard short cuts for navigating the content of web pages. For user input controls such as radio buttons and edit boxes the user can navigate the controls sequentially using assigned ‘form field’ or … Continue reading →

Posted in accessibility testing, Assistive Technology, Firefox, HTML, JAWS, Mozilla, NVDA, Screen Readers, Standards, W3C, WAI-ARIA, Web Accessibility, Window Eyes | Comments Off

Testing WAI-ARIA Role Support

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Steve Faulkner

For WAI-ARIA to be useful, to people with disabilities who use assistive technology, access to the information that ARIA roles and properties provides must be well supported across a range of browsers and assistive technologies. One of the activities going … Continue reading →

Posted in Assistive Technology, Firefox, JAWS, NVDA, Screen Readers, W3C, WAI-ARIA, Web Accessibility, Window Eyes, Zoomtext | 3 Comments