On April 3rd, the UN’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) received the necessary 20 member state ratifications for the Treaty to move into implementation. The CRDP will go into effect May 3rd. You can access the CRDP at http://www.un.org/disabilities/ This comprehensive human rights treaty provides many fundamental rights to those with […]
I am seeing an increasingly alarming trend in the implementation of CSS on web sites – the inclusion of outline:0 or outline:none. The outline CSS property allows you to define the visual outline that displays when elements are selected or have focus. Otherwise known as the focus indicator, it is seen as the dotted lines […]
As part of WebAIM’s Steppingstones of Technology project, we have performed an extensive literature review to identify elements that are often cited as having an impact on users with cognitive and learning disabilities when accessing web content. To further inform us, we invite you to complete a short survey. WebAIM’s Steppingstones project is one of […]
In the six weeks since we launched WAVE 4.0 beta, over 100,000 accessibility reports have been run. We’re now happy to announce the release of the WAVE Firefox toolbar. This toolbar performs web accessibility evaluations directly in your web browser. This provides better security, an ability to evaluate password-protected or intranet pages, and evaluate dynamically […]
After the events of this week, I have several fewer reasons to loathe Internet Explorer. It’s not a real secret that I, like many other developers, have experienced a vast amount of frustration in attempts to build standards compliant, accessible web sites that work in Internet Explorer. From the infamous hasLayout bug to CSS inconsistencies, […]
