Category Archives: accessibility

Accessibility tools in the page versus chrome

One of the Human Factors Engineers asked me about accessibility controls in the UI on Friday. Things like text zoom controls that allow the user to zoom the font size and so forth. He was asking whether those should be revealed to all users, or just shown to users who were using some sort of …

2008/7/27 – 9:29 pm | By scott | Posted in accessibility, browsers, software | Comments (0)

The Paciello Group Blog

Finally starting to work back through the archive of The Paciello Group blog. Excellent stuff there. Some highlights from older stuff: Why Section 508 is not working – might explain why some govt. agencies are coming back with harsher responses. Fieldsets, legends, and screenreaders – I’ve written abotu legend before. There are problems with the …

2008/7/16 – 7:51 am | By scott | Posted in accessibility, blogging | Comments (0)

Link roundup

Google audio captcha hacked. Making mistakes – that which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Creating tutorials from code – guy I work with has a nice technique for creating js examples in the documentation by parsing the example code. Pragmatic Progressive Enhancement – my favorite point is #2. Build on things that work, like …

2008/5/16 – 6:29 pm | By scott | Posted in accessibility, javascript | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Accessibly Specific

Google reader now allows resizing of only a particular article. Nice touch is that the individual item AND the title on the left sidebar both increase in size, not just the article. They phrase this as a “CSS lens”. This would come in handy when there are code snippets or other pieces of content that …

2008/5/12 – 7:41 am | By scott | Posted in accessibility, css, javascript | Comments (0)