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How the W3C Text Alternative Computation Works – SSB BART Group
This is a rather technical article, but if you’ve ever wondered why screen readers sometimes read one type of information, such as a label on a form field and sometimes another, such as a description, this may help explain. The Text Alternative Computation Over the years, there has been a lot of confusion about the…
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Thank you, MNsure, for giving me one more reason to hate ARIA
As a member of the accessibility community, I have the pleasure of getting to work with a wide variety of folks, all of whom approach accessibility with a somewhat different mindset. There are those, for example, who feel that accessibility is more of a technical challenge, an exercise in ensuring mechanisms exist for technologies like…
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The web accessibility basics – Marco’s Accessibility Blog
If you’re not familiar with Marco Zehe, you definitely should be. Marco, @MarcoInEnglish on Twitter, has done an incredible amount to ensure that Mozilla products and services are accessible. In whatever free time he has left over from that, he writes an informative blog often discussing the challenges faced in accessibility. In his most recent…
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Testing the Mobile Podcaster app
In this brief recording, I test an app, Mobile Podcaster which allows one to record a podcast episode directly on an iOS device, specify a description and publish. Since the app hasn’t been updated since 2013, I’m not sure if it’ll even work. With fingers crossed, I shall hit the botton to bublish and see…
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Review: One for the Money
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich My rating: 5 of 5 stars Light-hearted and extremely humorous, this book about a female bounty hunter who is successful more by luck than skill had me chuckling right from page one. I’m now on the 16TH book in the series and am loving it just as much…
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The amazing kitchen gadget that is the OptiGrill
The OptiGrill is an amazing kitchen gadget that, with its audible alerts, is very accessible. This demo is repodcasted courtesy of Accessible Devices.
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Looking for accessibility resources on the Apple Watch? David Woodbridge has you covered
Like many, I had so many questions about the Apple Watch: what would its accessibility be like? Could we actually use all the watch’s features? And most important to me anyway, what’d it sound like? David Woodbridge has been tirelessly blogging about his experience with the Apple Watch in addition to having created a fantastic…
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Audio posts now fixed
if you have recently tried to listen to any of my audio posts, you may have had trouble finding the links to play or download the audio. Apparently I broke something when implementing a new theme, however, I was able to fix it earlier this evening. Anyway, I’m sorry for any trouble anyone might have…
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Wow, can I really post via MS Word?
As I gear up to begin writing new content on my blog, I’ve been looking at accessible tools that I might use to make the entire writing/editing/publishing process just a bit easier. Back when I was primarily a Mac user, I fell in love with MarsEdit, an absolutely fantastic application that made writing and publishing…
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iPhone Tip: Quick Way to Enter VoiceOver Practice Mode
And extremely useful tip that not many people seem to know about.