Monthly Archives: April 2012

how to remove CSS outlines in an accessible manner?

Anybody with any real world accessibility experience knows that using CSS :focus {outline:none} as recommended in the WHATWG HTML living standard is not a solution to any problem, it only replaces one accessibility issue with another. This why I worked … Continue reading

Posted in Accessibility, accessibility testing, Firefox, Google Chrome, HTML, HTML5, Internet Explorer, JavaScript, Mozilla, Opera, Safari, Section 508, WCAG 2.0, Web Accessibility | 8 Comments

HTML5 Accessibility Chops: ‘real world’ ARIA landmark use

I tweeted yesterday about initial results of data crunching on ARIA landmark role use on the top 10,000 web sites HTML home page code samples. What I found is very encouraging.

Posted in accessibility testing, Assistive Technology, HTML, HTML5, landmark roles, W3C, WAI-ARIA, Web Accessibility | 7 Comments

Web Accessibility Toolbar 2012

The Web Accessibility Toolbar has been updated with 2 new features: Thanks to Jun for all his work!

Posted in HTML, HTML5, Internet Explorer, W3C, W3C Validator, Web Accessibility | 7 Comments

HTML data for the masses: data dump

I have been doing regex searches on the HTML of the 8900 or so of the top 10000 home pages I collected over easter and am providing the results of those searches I have conducted so far, in raw form:

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HTML data for the masses: DOCTYPE usage

Of a sample of approximately 8900 home pages from a list of of the top 10,000 sites the following HTML doctype usage was found: Total pages with a doctype declaration: 7708

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