Where It's AT – Assistive Technology Blog

There were some holidays happening the past few weeks, causing us to miss a couple of our Friday news wrap-ups. But  we’re back and brining you the coolest technology news of the week, like we do. AT in the news for the week on 1/5 thru 1/9. Beyond alt-text: a wave of new senior corporate positions […]

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Server-side Image Maps Server-side image maps (typically an <img> with the ismap attribute) allows x and y coordinates of where a user clicks the image with a mouse to be sent to a server for processing. For example, for a state map, the x and y coordinates of where the user clicks could be analyzed […]

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Project: Possibility is a software collaboration for people with disabilities. The goal is to create and support innovative software projects that are empowering for the software developers that implement them and for the persons with disabilities that use them. This vision involves both innovating completely new software projects and contributing to and collaborating with existing open-source […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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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