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Usually. I originally titled this InacCSS-onlyible. I even made this typographically, er, distinct image. Then I realized it was silly and will instead use the...

If your users scale the text size in Android or iDeviceOS, that doesn’t always affect the size of text on a web page. It’s a function of browser and authored...

Note: September 25, 2021 If you do not need to support IE, Legacy Edge, or older versions of Firefox, then I encourage you to ignore this post and instead read...

In current user interface terms a toast is a message that appears on the screen; it is often short, often appears only briefly, and often animates up from the...

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Update: 7 October 2023 Tables with display properties are now functional across Chromium, Gecko, and (finally) WebKit browsers. Barring regressions (which have...

I can’t actually assert the Accesstive overlay will result in a lawsuit, though there is a trend of overlays attracting lawsuits. Attorneys say overlays...

Yeah. Another one. Let’s recap: In 2012 I asked that we get back to using HTML tables for tabular data in my post It’s OK to Use Tables, In November I...

I have spent a few years banging on about ensuring scrolling areas on a page are accessible to keyboard-only users. This is partly because the term...

It is not uncommon to see developers and designers forego creating focus styles for controls on web sites and applications. For those who are aware of the need...

Whether you call them cards, block links, or some other thing, the construct of making an area of content clickable (tappable, Enter-key-able,...

This is meant to use voice control to test select menus (and other fields, but the title would be less weird) by their value because their accessible names are...

“Tires are foundational to all our concept cars! You can tell because we left a wheel well to hold one!” A common refrain I see from companies is a...

alt: It’s me, but I’m made of polymers. I stand 4 inches tall, my joints are hinged, my face is a rictus of dull PVC. I am restrained against a cardboard wall...

Baby Boomerangutuang, one of the Tick’s students. He was just shouting It’s OK to play with dolls! Consider this post to be the sequel to my 2012 post...

Here is the priority I follow when assigning an accessible name to a control: Native HTML techniques, aria-labelledby pointing at existing visible text,...

Once again, the advice is in the title of the post. But I will ramble anyway since you scrolled this far. First run with the advice, and then review some...

This post only covers my impressions and experiences from CSUNATC. Others probably had dramatically different experiences. Talk Types The talks seemed to fall...

alt: It’s me, but I’m made of polymers. I stand 4 inches tall, my joints are hinged, my face is a rictus of dull PVC. I am restrained against a cardboard wall...

Shopify is legitimately angry at drive-by ADA lawsuits, as outlined in its recent post The small business shakedown: Why thousands of entrepreneurs are getting...

I can’t actually assert the ARTY overlay will result in a lawsuit, though there is a trend of overlays attracting lawsuits. Attorneys say overlays...

All of my blog posts are organized by year (most recent year at the top, with most recent post at the top of that year). Pages that appear in the navigation...

Consultant, Writer, Speaker I have been developing accessible, effective user interfaces for the Web since 1993, as well as interfaces for multimedia and...

I am currently unavailable for consulting engagements, but am available for speaking. I have presented and worked in cities from Toronto to Singapore (and that...

I should clarify that I am not talking about carousels. That said, because users often consider horizontal scrolling containers to be carousels, I will be...

As of December 2024, you should prefer using <img> for icons and the like, but for non-interactive decorative contexts that don’t need...

This is not a comparison between popovers and dialogs, nor is it a discussion of support. This is me trying to get ahead of a potential issue for users when...

Disclaimer: This post and the headline is my opinion. I provide verifiable facts throughout to inform that opinion. I say this because French overlay vendor...

I generated (and then tweaked) this accessibility statement from the W3C Accessibility Statement Generator Tool. You can probably do this for your own site...

I regularly work on projects with HTML tables that have been pushed to the edge with styles, scripts, and widget features. A common pattern is where rows are...

Abstract for my session Talkin’ Tables, which I presented in place of another speaker who had to back out the day before: This session will walk through the...

I have written a bunch about responsive tables. Maybe too much. I keep trying to give developers the information they need to make informed decisions — ARIA...

TL;DR: In general, I recommend underlining links in body content. In the absence of a better style appropriate for a specific site, this is the way to go....

Following is the live stream of the talk from YouTube. Owing to Fat Tuesday, I stepped away from a feast of gumbo, jambalaya, red beans & rice, and...

Lainey Feingold, Reginé Gilbert, and Chancey Fleet gathered 36 authors across 10 countries and a commonwealth to write 32 chapters about ethics in digital...

alt: It’s me, but I’m made of polymers. I stand 4 inches tall, my joints are hinged, my face is a rictus of dull PVC. I am restrained against a cardboard wall...

This post does not discuss whether live regions are good, nor is it a post about the best way to use them. This post only covers how they are exposed to the...

If your users scale the text size in Android or iDeviceOS, that doesn’t always affect the size of text on a web page. It’s a function of browser and authored...

Identifying keyboard shortcuts for an application is mostly an internationalization problem. It’s also not a new problem. A recent (to me) example is the...

Automated accessibility testing tools cannot test 100% of WCAG. This position is not controversial. Other than overlay vendors, no automated tool maker makes...

If your users scale the text size in Android or iDeviceOS, that doesn’t always affect the size of text on a web page. It’s a function of browser and authored...

I had this post queued up for Halloween because, come on, skeletons, and then life did its thing and now it is a … Thanksgiving post? Many skeleton patterns do...

This post’s title is unpleasant, but it’s important to acknowledge the reality of the human condition and limitations in technologies. Even purpose-built...

Every few months there’s another State of Something survey. As of this week, the State of CSS 2025 survey results have just become available and the...

Today Temani Afif asked a question: Are the below codes equivalent if we consider all the aspects? (a11y, semantic, something else maybe?) If not, what is...

I have often remarked that my blog is little more than a place for me to offload my memory. I need not remember the syntax, logic, test results, etc. of every...

While originally I was scheduled to attend CSUN to present two talks one talk, I ended up not attending (my father won A Major Award so I joined him instead)....

TL;DR: Regardless of what accessibility conformance level you target, do not arbitrarily open links in a new window or tab. If you are required to do so...

ACRs are Accessibility Conformance Reports, which are the output of a VPAT, or Voluntary Product Accessibility Template maintained by ITIC, or the Information...

I made a demo for WCAG 2.2 Success Criterion 1.2.5 Audio Description (Prerecorded) AA and have embedded it further down the page. It’s a bit of a...

Related Other posts in this accidental series: Layout as a Clue to Semantics Display: Contents Is Not a CSS Reset Tables, JSON, CSS, ARIA, RWD, TLAs… Tables,...

TL;DR: Stop using the word drop-down. Instead choose a term that accurately describes the control you want. I have worked both with native platform developers...

Conferences/Events 2023 Paris Web (September 2023, Paris) WordCamp Buffalo (May 2023, Buffalo) 2022 WordPress A11y Day (November 2022, remote) a11yTOconf...

If your users scale the text size in Android or iDeviceOS, that doesn’t always affect the size of text on a web page. It’s a function of browser and authored...

Once major browsers started supporting <details> & <summary> developers immediately started to play with them to see what sorts of patterns...

Painfully slow demonstration of the example table resizing and different media queries kicking in. After writing (again) that it is ok to use tables, and after...