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Category Archives: Screen Readers
Testing and debugging iOS accessibility for VoiceOver
When you build an iOS app it’s easy to make it VoiceOver accessible. Native UI controls have accessibility built-in as standard, and custom controls can be accessibility-enabled without difficulty.
Posted in Accessibility, accessibility testing, Apple, Assistive Technology, iPhone, mobile, Screen Readers, tools, VoiceOver
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HTML5 Accessibility Chops: ARIA role=alert browser support
ARIA role=alert is supported across modern browsers and assistive technology, but implementation in browsers differ, which can lead to role=alert appearing to be unsupported.
Open letter to Opera re: Accessibility Support
The latest Opera browser has been released; Opera 12. In many ways Opera is a great browser and Opera 12 includes lots of shiny new stuff, but still no support for assistive technology (AT) users. Opera excels in implementing HTML5 … Continue reading
Posted in Assistive Technology, HTML5, IAccessible2, Opera, Screen Readers, WAI-ARIA, Web Accessibility
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HTML5 Canvas Accessibility in Firefox 13
The recently released Firefox 13 implements the HTML5 specification’s canvas element fallback concept. This means that the content inside a canvas elements start and end tags is exposed to assistive technology users even when the browser supports canvas. It also … Continue reading
Firefox 14: image long description via link using aria-describedby
In his latest article Mozilla accessibility engineer Alexander Surkov describes an interesting implementation development in FireFox 14, which is a possible solution using ARIA to provide a link to a long description on an image:
Posted in Firefox, HTML5, Screen Readers, WAI-ARIA, Web Accessibility
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