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Progressive enhancement of links using the CSS attribute selector
2 Comments Published 4 weeks, 1 day ago in :after, Accessibility, CSS, CSS2, CSS3, DHTML, Hacks, IE7, IE8, Image Sprites, Link, Online Resource, W3C, attribute selector and min-height Digg ThisAttribute Selector Test Page
We have avoided using CSS3 rules for too long. It’s been difficult to justify using rules that won’t work for a significant portion of our audience, Internet Explorer 7 and below. However, Internet Explorer 8 is coming out soon and does work with the features we like.
I think [...]
Captioning Sucks and Needs a Jump Start
1 Comment Published 3 months ago in Accessibility, Standardista, Video and Yahoo! Digg ThisThe internet is awash in video. YouTube, Yahoo Video, and other video sites host millions of videos with little attention to close captioning. For many sites, the text translations exist, they simply are not used. This sucks.
Television shows have featured captioning for many years. It’s sometimes the only way to figure out what they are [...]
RNIB releases guidelines for accessible Flash banner ads
0 Comments Published 6 months ago in Accessibility, Flash and Online Resource Digg ThisThe Royal National Institute of Blind People has just released a set of guidelines for building accessible Flash ads. While these are aimed at ads, there’s no reason you can’t use the same guidelines in all of your Flash projects.
Provide a text equivalent for the animation.
Provide an alternative for the Flash animation
Readability
Looping and blinking
Test your [...]
Class Equals Screen Reader Info
2 Comments Published 11 months, 2 weeks ago in :absolute, Accessibility, CSS, Class, Table Header, Table Header Scope, Table Summary, Yahoo! and position Digg ThisI’ve been using a little CSS trickery to hide content and data from the average user. I hate to mention it too often as it can open pandora’s box. There was a recent thread on the Microformat’s discussion list about this very topic. The gist of many programmers is that data worth sharing is data [...]
Using Screen Magnifiers on the Web an Introduction Video
0 Comments Published 1 year ago in Accessibility, CSS and Yahoo! Digg ThisThey Yahooo User Interface group has added another video to their accessibility library. This time Karo Caron and Victor Tsaran introduce the screen magnifier.
Screen Magnifiers assist people with limited vision by magnifying small portions of the screen. This causes new problems with “popup” dialog boxes, sliding components, and more. It’s especially important for User [...]
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