WebAIM and The Paciello Group (TPG) are pleased to announce today a partnership that delivers independent web site certification for accessibility. In today’s diverse environment, the Internet is becoming the pre-eminent location for people with disabilities to find information and to transact business. It is vitally important for web site creators and operators to take […]
For years WebAIM has recommended a specific technique for hiding content visually while allowing it to be read by screen readers. This involved using CSS to position the content above the top of the page. It has now been brought to our attention that if the off-screen content contains a focusable element (a link or […]
WebAIM, Opera, and The Paciello Group are pleased to coordinate and sponsor a tweetup at the CSUN Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference. The tweetup will be held Wednesday, March 18th from 6-7:30pm at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott in the Executive Suite 2, 18th Floor. CSUN Tweetup 2009 is open to all. More details […]
The initial results of our screen reader survey are now available – http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey/ With over 1100 responses (thank you to all that participated!), the data provides a load of useful information about screen reader user demographics and preferences. Some of the results were about what we expected, but some of them very much surprised us. […]
Along the same line as our popular Section 508 Checklist, WebAIM has just published a WCAG 2.0 Checklist. This is intended to be an easy-to-use, understandable checklist for evaluating or implementing WCAG 2.0. The language in the checklist is significantly simplified from the actual WCAG 2.0 language published by the W3C. While the complexity of […]
