WCAG 3 a change of context
Why change? The old skool WCAG 2x definition of a web page is not fit for purpose when WCAG is used to test non web user interfaces as it is,
HTML Developers: Please Consider – in the year of 2025
I wrote the rules of ARIA, their intention was not to discourage, but to encourage developers to understand the benefits of the built-in semantics, accessibility and behaviours already available in
Old alt text advice
background I originally wrote this advice between 2010-2014 for the HTML5 specification with help from Laura Carlson and others. I still refer to it and decided it needed an update
disabled and obscured
The WCAG success criterion 1.4.3: Contrast (Minimum) requires that: The visual presentation of text and images of text has a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1 There are several exceptions
aria-hasPopUp less is more
I first tested and reported support in the critically acclaimed 2021 article hasPopup hasPoop. I then retested 09/02/2023 – JAWS and NVDA, no change to results reported in 2021. Movement at
ShatGPT
Failing at the first hurdle I am concerned. Not about Large Language Models (LLM)s doing me out of a job, but about the people who make money out of them
short note: why isn’t role=presentation/none allowed on focusable elements?
A friend and colleague pondered why ARIA role=presentation and its facsimile role=none is not allowed on focusable elements? The answer is, theses days, purely a function of implementation reality. It
short note on figure and figcaption
In 2011 when I first started thinking about how best to map the semantics of figure/figcaption to accessibility API properties, the set of properties to choose from was limited as
short note on figure and figcaption
In 2011 when I first started thinking about how best to map the semantics of figure/figcaption to accessibility API properties, the set of properties to choose from was limited as
12 years beyond a HTML joke
Originally published February 2020, updated in March 2021. Updated again today after reading web standards fantasy It’s actually been longer (I remember being introduced to the outline algorithm in 2007),