Category Archives: Accessibility

My views on accessibility and usability within web site design

Lists and Screen Readers

Posted on 13/10/2005 by Rich

An interesting article on this subject has recently been posted on the Spider Trax site. Well worth a read!

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Accessible Shopping Cart

Posted on 16/8/2005 by Rich

Up to now the number of shopping cart systems that are accessible i.e. valid xhtml and WAI AA has been low. I only know of 2 Karova and Trading Eye. However the downside is that they are not cheap. During … Continue reading →

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Accesskeys: useful or not?

Posted on 22/7/2005 by Rich

John Foliot and Derek featherstone over at Wats.ca have long queried the usefullness of accesskeys, and have some very nice articles surporting their claims. More reasons why we don’t use accesskeys from December 2003 is just one of these.

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Tidybot

Posted on 11/7/2005 by Rich

W3C and WDG both offer validators for download. Every now and then I go and look at the instructions, and shudder with horror. Installation of these things is not easy, and I still don’t think I have the necessary knowledge … Continue reading →

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Automated accessibility checkers

Posted on 8/7/2005 by Rich

There are an increasing number of tools that can carry out automated accessibility checks. But are they any good? For quick checks, I have long used Cynthia Says as I find the resulting report informative and easy to understand. Having … Continue reading →

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How accessible are embedded movies?

Posted on 1/7/2005 by Rich

Today I have been wrestling with embedding a movie into a web page. To try and ensure cross browser, and cross platform, usability I have had to use the <embed> inside an <object> On an XHTML 1.0 Strict page, this … Continue reading →

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