Posted under Accessibility and MS Office & Keyboard Shortcuts & Office User & Testing
Written by: Jeff Singleton
I recently came across a site that gave guidance about formatting a Microsoft Word 2003 document for accessibility. Yes, I know that Office 2007 is the most recent version but there are still a lot of Office 2003 users in the World and most of the advice can be transferred to the newer versions.
The guidance [...]
Posted under Accessibility in the News & Legal & Policy
Written by: Mike Adams
While this may not be of much use to our development followers I am very intrigued by this push for new standards in a way that can obviously benefit many. It really isn’t a secret that many of us no longer rely on going into a bank and utilizing the tellers. Direct deposits, automatic bill [...]
Read more: House Bill 6305: ATM Visually Impaired-Friendly Act...Posted under Accessibility and JAWS & Accessibility in the News & Developer & Development & Internet Explorer & Keyboard Shortcuts & Legal & Policy & Testing & WCAG & section 508
Written by: Jeff Singleton
The CKEditor is the newest release of the popular open source web page text editor formally known as the FCKEditor. Unfortunately the previous name was often misrepresented as the [bad word] editor. So the name has been updated and hopefully this will avoid any unpleasant or offensive connections in the future.
I first became aware of [...]
Posted under Accessibility Resource & Accessibility in the News & Developer & WCAG & section 508
Written by: Mike Adams
I’m going to take a slightly different twist with some posts here as I concede that the many can accomplish far more than a few. I find and read so many great posts that I didn’t think it was fair to limit the knowledge we pass to you simply because it came from another source. [...]
Read more: Accessibility Resource: Adobe Flash Accessibility…...Posted under Legal & Policy
Written by: Ken Nakata
Earlier today, my friend Lainey Feingold put up a great blog post about a comprehensive web accessibility settlement agreement involving the New York State Attorney General’s Office. The settlement agreement involves HSBC Card Services. The settlement agreement requires, among other things, that HSBC make its website conform to WCAG 2.0, level AA.
This isn’t the first time that [...]
Posted under Accessibility in the News & Legal & Policy
Written by: Mike Adams
I stumbled across a very important post in the accessibility world yesterday. As Attorney General Cuomo secured a nationwide agreement with HSBC which basically came under fire as their services weren’t fully accessible to those with disabilities. A blind customer in this case was attempting to dispute a credit card transaction and was repeatedly told [...]
Read more: HSBC & Accessibility...Posted under Accessibility and JAWS & Browser & Firefox & Internet Explorer
Written by: Mike Adams
I’ve run across a few issues and concerns lately that talk about JAWS reading the <Title> attributes in IE but not in Firefox. I had to spend a little time researching this one but here is the gist of it…
The fact that IE works is actually an old IE bug and some dumb luck. You’ll [...]
Posted under Legal & Policy & Testing
Written by: Jeff Singleton
Many times great effort and resource is put into making sure that a site is compliant with Section 508 or the WCAG requirements. All the ALT text is in place, input fields have labels, headings and page titles are used, etc. Everything is set and ready to go…at least from a technical standpoint.
What often gets [...]
Posted under Accessibility and MS Office & Accessibility and PDF
Written by: Jeff Singleton
There have been so many times I get questions from people who purchased a 3rd party product that allows them to save documents to a PDF only to find out that they can’t save an accessible (or tagged) PDF. They want to know how they can make their files accessible. Sadly, all I could really [...]
Read more: The Ability To Create An Accessible PDF Has Been Brought To The Masses!...Posted under Developer & Development & Testing
Written by: Thomas Logan
Inspect32 is a tool from Microsoft that enables a developer to verify that information is being correctly exposed through MSAA (Microsoft Active Accessibility). MSAA is an information source for an assistive technology. As a developer or tester, by verifying that the “Name” property is being passed through, you will be able to ensure that screen [...]
Read more: Using Inspect32 to Inspect Links and Images on Web Sites...