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Posted in Information Technology, Web Accessibility, Web Tip Wednesday on Dec 17th, 2014
Image Maps Image maps allow an image to have defined clickable areas or ‘hotspots’. These hotspots are defined in the <area> element using coordinates for geometric shapes. The hotspots are navigated by keyboard users in the order in which they are defined in the source code. The order should be logical – usually either left-to-right, […]
Posted in Assistive Technology, Information Technology, Tech Tip Tuesday on Dec 16th, 2014
Year End App-Up Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP The elves who keep the blog up and running have a certain well-known prior engagement in the not too distant future. Before the year grinds to a close though, I thought it would be a great time to review some of the most useful […]
Posted in Information Technology, Web Accessibility, Web Tip Wednesday on Dec 10th, 2014
Simplify Data Tables Accessibility of data tables can be achieved by identifying table headers and defining whether they are row or column headers (for example, <th scope=”col”>). Complex tables (those that have more than one level of row or column header, or spanned data or header cells) can easily become too complex for screen reader […]
Posted in Assistive Technology, AT News, Blind/Low Vision Aids , Education, Information Technology, Learning Aids, Mystery Monday on Dec 8th, 2014
We usually like to test the apps we write about, but we recently came across the BeeLine Reader and wanted to share the information they sent along to us. If you are using it, we’d love to know your thoughts. Please feel free to comment! BeeLine Reader, a new app that increases reading ability and […]
Posted in Assistive Technology, AT News, Information Technology, Weekly Wrap-up Friday on Dec 5th, 2014
Science doesn’t take a break for the holidays, but we did. So this week, you get all the news from last week and this week. We’ve got a whole lot of Stephen Hawking in here, some awesome new developments overseas (like solar powered hearing aids!!!), a new development in eye-gaze technology and more. Don’t miss […]
Posted in Information Technology, Web Accessibility, Web Tip Wednesday on Dec 3rd, 2014
Layout Tables Tables in HTML are intended for tabular data. Although using tables for page layout is not considered best practice, this typically has minimal impact on accessibility, as long as two primary guidelines are kept in mind. First, do not use any markup that is typically used to identify data tables. This includes table […]
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