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 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 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 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...Posted under Developer & Testing
Written by: Jeff Singleton
If you are a software tester or a Software Quality Assurance (SQA) person then you have no doubt written bug reports. The reports, which are also called defect reports, are the medium used to transfer your knowledge about the bug to those who will be tasked with fixing it. This report will first go to [...]
Read more: Writing Complete and Effective Bug/Defect Reports...Posted under Testing
Written by: Mike Adams
Testing Style Sheets is the easy part, figuring how to do it can take a little more time. I’ll do my best with this blog to keep things simple so you can help make your web based product accessible and show you how you can test it. Cascading Style Sheets or CSS is a very [...]
Read more: Testing Style Sheets...Posted under Testing
Written by: Jeff Singleton
Some dialog windows do not interact with JAWS in the expected way. When this happens there is text within the dialog that does not get read. Typically you will hear JAWS read only the buttons on the dialog and if a link exists you will hear that read as well when you arrow through the [...]
Read more: Dialog Window Text and the JAWS Cursor...Posted under Testing
Written by: Mike Adams
Testing Style Sheets is the easy part, figuring how to do it can take a little more time. I’ll do my best with this blog to keep things simple so you can help make your web based product accessible and show you how you can test it. Cascading Style Sheets or CSS is a very [...]
Read more: Testing Style Sheets...Posted under Testing
Written by: Mike Adams
Data accessibility is becoming a very critical part of software development but I think many of us forget to address accessibility where it is most common in our day to day computer use. There are many different Microsoft Office applications so I’m really only going to address some accessibility issues in PowerPoint and Word in [...]
Read more: Adding Alt Text to Embedded Objects in Office...Posted under Testing
Written by: Jeff Singleton
Some dialog windows do not interact with JAWS in the expected way. When this happens there is text within the dialog that does not get read. Typically you will hear JAWS read only the buttons on the dialog and if a link exists you will hear that read as well when you arrow through the [...]
Read more: Dialog Window Text and the JAWS Cursor...