UPDATE: Microsoft announced January 16, 2009 that they will now support ARIA properties and states according to spec. Cheers to Microsoft for making this move to support standards and accessible web development. Momentum WAI-ARIA, the W3C protocol for making rich internet applications more accessible, is gaining much momentum (Read the ARIA FAQ). Even though ARIA […]
Eight months ago, WebAIM announced the first general release of the new WAVE Web Accessibility Tool version 4. Since that time, the WAVE team has been hard at work fixing bugs, improving efficiency, enhancing the test rules, and preparing for new WAVE features and projects. We therefore thought this would be a good time to […]
I was happy to be co-host of the most recent Web Axe podcast. Dennis and I discuss the Target lawsuit, YouTube captioning, Fangs for Firefox 3, and more. Web Axe was recently nominated as “Podcast of the Year”. Be sure to check out the other excellent podcasts available.
In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic, and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1), and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing. And behold, then came a new web browser known as “Mozilla”, being short for “Mosaic Killer,” but Mosaic was not amused, so the public name was changed to Netscape, […]
Web Accessibility Gone Wild presents a wide variety of mistakes, misconceptions, over-indulgences, intricacies, and generally silly aspects of modern accessibility.
