The United Nations commissioned a report on web accessibility with very disappointing results. Only 3 home pages from 100 web sites achieved Single-A accessibility from the WCAG 1.0 guidelines (the lowest level of web accessibility compliance). The sites were chosen from 20 countries in 5 categories (Travel, Finance, Media, Politics, and Retail). Also, here’s a […]
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Dennis and Ross discuss various techniques on coding for web accessibility (in follow up to Podcast #34: Design Considerations for Web Accessibility). Topics include: Progressive Enhancement Code order Semantic code Scalability Navigation Download Web Axe Episode 37 (Code Considerations for Accessibility) News Microsoft homepage redesigned; now it is a CSS layout but still HTML 4.01. […]
So you would like to test your web site for screenreaders. It may not the final test, maybe it is. Maybe you don’t have screenreader software, or the resources to hire testers, or the time. What do you do? Here comes the Fangs Screen Reader Emulator for Firefox 1.5 to the rescue. It’s by Peter […]
In addition to a nice caption tag and summary attribute, you may know that a data table requires table header cells (TH) for the header rows and/or columns, and a scope attribute (see Web Axe episode 3, Data Tables). But what is there is more than one row of headers? This is called a complex […]
Retail sites fail accessibility test
An article from the BBC “Retail websites fail access test” discusses the lack on web accessibility in the largest retail web sites in the United Kingdom. It was found that 30 of the UK’s most important retail web sites had significant accessibility issues. Here are some findings: Only 3 terms and conditions pages achieved basic […]