A lot of controversy has surround the HTML 5 working group and how their proposed changes will affect accessibility. With draft proposals for changing the markup for table headers to making the alt attribute optional and removing longdesc, there have been many people complaining that accessibility is not a high priority for some on the […]
Screen readers and my HP laptop have never been friends. JAWS causes major stability issues. Window Eyes stutters a lot. Now that I have an Intel-based Mac with Parallels and Boot Camp for running Windows, I have found the perfect screen reader testing system. Parallels is a program that allows Windows to run within a […]
Only a few days remain for public comment on the recent draft of WCAG 2.0. I’ve compiled some questions and issues and have a short list of things that just don’t make much sense. While I will certainly post my comments to the working group, I thought I’d post some thoughts here for your review […]
Gian Sampson-Wild’s A List Apart article provides an excellent overview of WCAG 2.0 testability issues. Like Joe Clark’s article and many others before, it’s difficult to view an article as entirely objective when the author is clearly carrying a grudge against the WCAG working group. Despite my inherent suspicions, Gian provides several strong arguments for […]
I was happy to be invited by Dennis Lembree and Ross Johnson of WebAxe to join Joe Dolson on their latest podcast on WCAG 2.0. We had a good time discussing how WCAG 2.0 has progressed, where it still falls short, and what the future holds. We tackled some of the hottest topics regarding the […]
