Welcome to Marco's accessibility musings!
Hi and welcome to my blog! My goal is to blog about everything and anything I deem important in the world of accessible software (or such that strives to become such). I’ll be talking about my work...
View ArticleThe future of mobile accessibility, a hopeful lookout
In case you haven’t read it yet: Nokia acquires Trolltech. DougT also posted a follow-up article on the future, or lack thereof, of Symbian S60/S40, which you can find here. For accessibility, this...
View ArticleEasy ARIA Tip #1: Using aria-required
Inspired by a conversation I had with Aaron the other day, I’m starting a mini series about easy accessibility improvements you can accomplish using ARIA, but which do not require you to implement a...
View ArticleEasy ARIA tip #2: aria-labelledby and aria-describedby
Sorry it took me so long to get back to it, but here it is, my second tip on the usage of some easy ARIA markup to make your sites more accessible. Imagine this: You have a form where you ask your...
View ArticleA follow up to my Easy ARIA tip
Community member Ben Millard has pointed out in a recent blog post that roughly the same as shown in my example can be achieved using regular HTML 4 by embedding the input into the label. Thanks for...
View ArticleStarted on automated test case development
As some of you may already have read on the newsgroups, or heard through statements from me or other accessibility developers at the Firefox project, one of my tasks is to develop automated test cases...
View ArticleSome better evaluation of image markup
Thursday’s nightly build of Firefox 3 contained a change that will give more useful information on certain pages where attributes for image tags have been used in some funny way. There are sometimes...
View ArticleAre Ajax and Accessibility mutually exclusive?
Peter of ATRC and an a11y community member, pointed me to a blog post titled “Stop using Ajax!”, written by OperaDev community member James “Brothercake” Edwards. My initial reaction was “Oh no! Not...
View ArticleImpressions from a German Web 2.0 accessibility conference
Last week on Tuesday, I attended a German web 2.0 accessibility conference titled Einfach für Alle – Konzepte und Zukunftsbilder für ein Barrierefreies Internet, loosely translated “Simply for all –...
View ArticleImpressions from SightCity 2008 in Frankfurt, Germany
From May 7 to May 9, I attended the SightCity conference and exhibition of assistive technologies for the blind and visually impaired. It is the biggest one in the German speaking world, and one of...
View ArticleTwo new ARIA related resources
There are two new ARIA resources that recently entered the web which I’d like to point you to if you’re interested: Paciello Group have started an ARIA tutorial. Peter Thiessen of ATRC in Toronto,...
View ArticleEasy ARIA tip #3: aria-invalid and role "alert"
I know, I know, it’s been a while since I posted my last Easy ARIA tip. But I’m hoping that this one will find you all excited and willing to play with it some more! The problem: You have a form, a...
View ArticleWordPress 2.6 brings a lot of accessibility improvements!
I just upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.6. This version brings with it a number of accessibility enhancements. One thing you might have noticed already is that there is now a default language set....
View ArticleSome random thoughts
I’m currently attending the Mozilla 2008 summit in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. Among all the good sessions we’re having, there are a couple that I definitely want to blog more about over the...
View ArticleARIA in Gmail #1: Alerts
Google have recently started to put ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) into GMail. This means that ARIA is now getting a lot more exposure than it used to, with GMail being probably one of...
View ArticleProgress on automated testing for the accessibility module
Today, I checked in two changes that allow the unit tests we’ve developed for the accessibility module so far, to run on what we call a staging server. A staging server is a server that simulates...
View ArticleARIA in Gmail #2: Enhancing the Chat experience
This post continues a series on the implementation of ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) in Gmail. On July 30, Orca team lead Willie Walker forwarded a message to the Orca mailing list...
View ArticleMore ARIA in the news
As I’m catching up with news after my return from Whistler, I have two suggested ARIA-related readings for you: Gez Lemon of the Opera Developer community has posted an article titled Introduction to...
View ArticleJim Zemlin on this year's breakout of the Linux desktop
Jim Zemlin of the Linux foundation wrote a very good post on this year being the year of the Linux desktop breakthrough. One thing he did only mention marginally, but which I think is just as...
View ArticleWhy I would not buy an iPod just yet
Recently, Apple announced better accessibility features in iTunes 8 and the 4th generation iPod Nano. This is a major breakthrough in accessibility because now, the maker of a mainstream hardware...
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