JAWS, Window-Eyes and display:none: Return to 2007
I was recently asked if JAWS and Window-Eyes still displayed the bugs described by Gez Lemon in 2007 whereby content hidden using display:none was read by the screen readers under certain conditions....
View ArticleResponsive Data Tables and Screen Reader Accessibility
When Chris Coyier presented his approach to responsive data tables, I wondered about the implications for accessibility, particularly for screen readers. This was especially so since the approach...
View ArticleSmall Change to Site Architecture
When I first rolled out this site, I figured I would write protracted research articles on accessibility, as well as shorter blog posts of an ad hoc nature, hence the previous and separate "Research"...
View ArticleJAWS, IE and Headings in HTML5
If you use explicitly ranked h1 to h6 headings nested in HTML5 sectioning elements, as opposed to using exclusively h1 elements, JAWS 12.0.1170, as well as the JAWS 13.0.171 beta, will misrepresent the...
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Videos of Screen Readers with Basic HTML5 and ARIA Landmarks
With the rapid development in certain user agents (take that, Firefox!), I'm a little late in getting these up, but I figure some of them are still useful to share. In any case, I posted to YouTube...
View ArticleScreen Readers and details/summary
The HTML5 details and summary elements can be used to create a disclosure widget for showing and hiding content, something that typically has been done with JavaScript. For example, this type of...
View ArticleARIA Widgets and Focus/Forms Mode Support in JAWS and NVDA
When using ARIA composite application widgets, e.g., combobox, menubar, tree, authors are expected to implement appropriate keyboard interaction and focus management. Where screen readers that use...
View Article(Not so) Simple ARIA Tree Views and Screen Readers
I started testing a number of screen readers with different ARIA tree views. It turns out there's a bit going on with screen readers and tree views, so the research got a little lengthy. It also turns...
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Slides from WDCNZ 2013
Slides from my WDCNZ 2013 presentation, "Make your widgets sing with ARIA": Note: The presentation was about screen reader and keyboard support for ARIA widgets, so I didn't bother scripting mouse...
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