Seeking Best Accessibility Practices

Archive for the “Quizzes”

“Off left” banned by Google?

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Hidden text can be a spammer’s haven.
Years ago, when screen readers were at release 4.0, they started to change and actually pay attention to display:none. I ran a series of tests back then and knew exactly how every screen reader behaved. I was one of the earliest advocates of hiding helpful text off to […]


Improving accessibility for today’s AJAX - To hack or not?

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

We have a hack for JAWS. Should we use it? Is it useful beyond JAWS?


Quiz: AJAX - automatically move focus?

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Three articles came to light in “Today’s AJAX and DHTML Best Practices.” Two of the articles went to some length to find ways to move focus as part of an AJAX event. They sought to take the visitor from the trigger event to the results in one smooth, easy move. For those of […]


Quiz: Tabindex disorder

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

Dennis in Web Axe Episode 24 mentions”

If the tab orders are different than the actual flow of the content on your page, it’s going to be really disorienting for the (screen reader) user.

Really? We know that this sort of disorder will be apparent in regular browsers. That happens with screen readers? […]


Quiz: Speaking forms labels - part 4

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

Recently, Bruce Lawson talked about receiving a copy of his new book, a collaboration with a number of well known names in the accessibility field:
Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance by Andrew Kirkpatrick, Bruce Lawson, Richard Rutter, Christian Heilman, Jim Tatcher and Cynthia Waddell. While engaging in a bit of unwarranted self-flagellation, Bruce […]


Summary of Results for JavaScript - Part 2: Navigating forms

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

Great work by James Edwards brings this blog briefly out of hiatus. James has completed the testing and results compilation for our JavaScript test case regarding form elements.
Quite some time ago, we published our second quiz about JavaScript accessibility. This one focused on form elements and all of the ways that JavaScript might […]



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