Elsewhere Archive

@alt and the Flickr Defense
An explanation of why the Flickr defence is bogus on numerous accounts.
Using Flash to Detect Screen Readers
Steve Faulkner talks about responsible usage of Flash's Accessibility.isActive.
GWT 1.5 Milestone 2 available
Google Widget Toolkit (GWT) 1.5 announces ARIA support for better accessibility.
The Notorious CSS?
Henny has discovered a standards compliant rapper!
Captioning Sucks
But Joe Clark's open & closed project aims to address that by defining standards for captioning.
Understanding How JAWS Reads Text
Steve Faulkner redresses some of the misinformation about how screen readers work.
Microsoft Accessibility Labs
Microsoft have released two new accessibility testing tools; UI Accessibility Checker (AccChecker) and UI Automation Verify (UIA Verify).
DHTML Style Guide
Best practice keystrokes for popular widgets.
Microsoft Expands Support for Web Standards
Microsoft reverse their decision to make developers opt-in to standard compliance mode, and make standards compliance the default mode with IE8.
Screen Readers Lack Emphasis
An article about support for elements such as strong, and em in JAWS and Window-Eyes.
Empty Links and Screen Readers
Mike Davies investigates how popular screen readers handle links without link text to assist the Microformats group create an accessible include pattern.
Introducing WAVE 4.0
WebAIM announce a beta version of their web accessibility evaluation tool, WAVE 4.0.
HTML 5 Draft
The HTML 5 working group release their first draft.
NVDA - a free and open source screen reader for Windows
Thoughts about testing procedures and using NVDA as an alternative screen reader for developers
Top 32 Articles for 2007
Jen Wedin recommends 32 articles for people to have read before 2008.
Using WAI-ARIA Roles and States with the YUI Menu Control
How to use the WAI-ARIA Roles and States with YUI's Menu Control.
They shoot standardistas, don't they?
Joe Clark talks about the lack of accessibility provisions in HTML 5.
Wheeling in Second Life
Video of woman with cerebral palsy talking about Second Life and the club Wheelies.
New Flash Player
The latest Flash player has MSAA support for Firefox so assistive technology users can interact with Flash in Firefox, as well as IE.
Providing Context for Ambiguous Link Phrases
An article explaining how to provide context for ambiguous link phrases without compromising the visual design.