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The plague of outline:0

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 […]

Cognitive Accessibility Survey

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 […]

WAVE toolbar and blog available

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 […]

IE8, Standards Compliance, and ARIA

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, […]

WebAIM presentations at CSUN

The CSUN Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference is one of the biggest accessibility conferences of the year. This year, WebAIM is giving three presentations at CSUN. If you’re going to CSUN this year, we hope to see you there. Details below. Advanced Web Accessibility Evaluation with WAVE Wednesday, March 12, 2008 – 1:50-2:50 PM […]