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@media and the WCAG2

I was waiting for the WCAG2 smack down at this week’s @media conference in London. The stage was set for some serious smack talk and WWF style-insults. Heck, Joe Clark was even mentioned at least a half dozen times.

But a surprising thing happened on stage. The presenters, Gez [...]

Gez Lemon and Steve Faulkner have published an excellent description of how screen readers react to AJAX and what you can do to make your AJAX-powered pages more accessible. Making AJAX work with screen readers is a comprehensive description of the mechanics behind screen reader behavior, workarounds, and theory. Hats off to these programmers for [...]

Sorry Jeffrey Zeldman for twisting your words, but they rang through my mind when I saw the latest missive from Joe Clark, the WCAG Samarai. Zeldman led the troops through the battle over standards guerrilla war against the browsers.
Now Joe is doffing his commanders uniform, I’m hoping it’s a rather smart one with sophisticated [...]

The detour around flash for accessibility

Yahoo! Tech’s home page features a flash-based media space that highlights stories, comparisons, buying guides, blog posts, and more. Making this accessible required a bit of trial and error, but the solution was simple and can be used by sites everywhere.
Step 1. Inserting the flash object

The site [...]

Ok kids, if you use image replacement to create super-cool rollover buttons, raise your hands. Good. Now, keep your hands raised if you put title attributes on the links to give added information. Great! What is the text inside the link? Keep your hands raised if you repeated your title attribute [...]