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Re: Obvious current examples of benefits of accessibility to mobile phone users

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Apr 24, 2013 3:45AM

On 23/04/2013 22:22, Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:
> W3C has some good set of articles on that, but I was wondring if there
> is something short and recent or something that only points out two or
> 3 things that are important both for web accessibility and better
> mobile experience.

One of my recent hobby horses is the whole resurgence of the "don't do
things on :hover / onmouseover because touchscreen devices don't have a
concept of hovering" advice, which we've been preaching forever with
regards to keyboard access (avoiding hover-based interaction, or at the
very least making it work on :focus / focus as well). Sadly, don't have
any recent articles about it to link to.



> I don't want to make exaggrated statements, and I want to be able to
> link to a different article backing up all my major points, so this
> would be very valuable.


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Patrick H. Lauke