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Podcast #37: Code Considerations for Web Accessibility

Thursday, December 28, 2006

Dennis and Ross discuss various techniques on coding for web accessibility (in follow up to Podcast #34: Design Considerations for Web Accessibility). Topics include:

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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

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Screenreader Emulator Firefox Extension

Saturday, December 09, 2006

So you would like to test your web site for screenreaders. It may not the final test, maybe it is. Maybe you don't have screenreader software, or the resources to hire testers, or the time. What do you do?

Here comes the Fangs Screen Reader Emulator for Firefox 1.5 to the rescue. It's by Peter Krantz of Standards-Schmandards. It's yet another valuable Firefox extension for development. Fangs will open a new window with a text sampling of what a screenreader would "say". It also has a tab for a basic headings list and a list of links. Very nifty.
[Fangs] renders a text version of a web page similar to screen reader output. Helps developers find accessibility issues fast.
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posted by Dennis Lembree at 9:02 AM   2 comments

Web Accessibility News Video

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

There's a great news segment on web accessibility from the BBC, and available in a video clip. It explains the difficulties of non-accessible web sites pretty well. Check it out:

posted by Dennis Lembree at 7:24 PM   0 comments

Podcast #36: Complex Data Tables

Sunday, December 03, 2006

In addition to a nice caption tag and summary attribute, you may know that a data table requires table header cells (TH) for the header rows and/or columns, and a scope attribute (see Web Axe episode 3, Data Tables). But what is there is more than one row of headers? This is called a complex table, and a different type of coding should be used.

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Sample code (modified from WebAIM):

<table summary="Name, birthdate, and age of Shelly's daughters. Also organized by children by birth and by marriage.">
<caption>Shelly's Daughters</caption>
<tr>
<td></td>
<th id="name">Name</th>
<th id="age">Age</th>
<th id="birthday">Birthday</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th rowspan="2" id="birth">by birth</th>
<th id="jackie">Jackie</th>
<td headers="birth jackie age">5</td>
<td headers="birth jackie birthday">April 5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th id="beth">Beth</th>
<td headers="birth beth age">8</td>
<td headers="birth beth birthday">January 14</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th id="step">by marriage</th>
<th id="jenny">Jenny</th>
<td headers ="step jenny age">12</td>
<td headers="step jenny birthday">Feb 12</td>
</tr>
</table>

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Dennis Lembree is the founder of web development company CheckEngine USA, which specializes in web usability, standards, and accessibility.

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