For the last several years, we have been using the Amazon.com web site to demonstrate functionality of WAVE. We do this because it is a complex site that has some accessibility features, many accessibility problems, and frankly, because the accessibility of the site seems to change almost daily. We’re never quite sure what Amazon developers […]
Roger Johansson has an excellent blog posting on “Click here and other meaningless link phrases“. Screen reader users often (and very often on home pages, site maps, and link indexes) open a list of all of the links on a web page. The link label (everything between the <a> and the </a>) is read for […]
The Washington Post has an interesting article yesterday about teaching computers to recognize images. Computers do not currently have the ability to determine whether an image of a cat is actually a cat or whether it is a dog, a human, or a telephone booth. But this new technology is teaching computers to better recognize […]
I had the great privilege of presenting at the Refresh the Web conference in Orlando last week. It was sponsored by the Refresh Orlando group, a member of the Refreshing Cities campaign. I had a great time meeting many people and getting to know old friends even better. My presentation notes are available and video […]
Aaron Leventhal of IBM is spearheading the efforts for making Firefox (and other Mozilla projects) accessible. He has written a great article for IBM – Firefox: An open source accessibility success story. It outlines the history of accessibility for Firefox as well as present efforts and future goals.
