"An ugly truth is that there are still interoperability issues with some of the native HTML controls and Screen readers. Even though these controls have been around since long before AI came to the rescue of our accessibility asses."
"For people who are blind or low vision, identifying dynamic changes (non-user-initiated) in the content of a web app is very challenging. ARIA live regions are the only mechanism available today that communicate content changes down to the accessibility layer..."
"I wrote an article in 2007 called Fieldsets, Legends and Screen Readers. It was my first post on the TPGi blog. I have been meaning to provide an update to it, for the last 15 years…"
"Live regions have a reputation for being "flaky" and inconsistent. While this can be attributed in part to shortcomings in current implementations, the problem can also be caused by developers misunderstanding how live regions are intended to work."
aria-owns allows developers to restructure the parent-child relationships in the accessibility tree. This means that screen reader users may experience a different semantic structure and meaning to other users when they navigate and interact with content using their screen readers virtual/browse mode.
"Regularly people link to or quote from some outdated version of a specification. This can be confusing and detrimental to understanding, if the information is no longer correct or relevant."
"AI can help by providing mostly accurate descriptions of images on web pages. This can be especially helpful when the image has not been provided with an text alternative, but is visible on the page."
👉🏼 A SIMPLE CUSTOM
Had reason to re-read this recently.
“For whatever reason some people don’t like the standard HTML checkbox and radio button, they seek to jazz ’em up and in the process the often jizz up the usability/accessibility of these controls.”
check for accesskey and aria-keyshortcuts bookmarklet
Made this to quickly check for presence of accesskey and aria-keyshortcuts attributes to help in testing WCAG 2.2 Success Criterion 2.1.4 Character Key Shortcuts