Keyboard Accessibility Difficulty: Beginner Category: Structure Presentation Ensuring that your web page is fully accessible using only the keyboard is a vital component of web accessibility. All interactive elements, including links, buttons, form fields, media controls, etc. should be accessible using only the keyboard. Use the Tab key to navigate through page elements. Shift + […]
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Conveying Information Using Color Alone Difficulty: Beginner Category: Presentation Avoid using color or other stylistic differences as the only means of conveying information or meaning. Blind users do not care about the color, font size, or styling of text, so long as the visual aspects of that text are not used to convey content. Screen […]
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Color Dependency Difficulty: Beginner Category: Presentation Individuals with color-blindness or color deficiency may have difficulty in differentiating between certain color combinations. This affects approximately 7% of males and .1% of females. Difficulty in differentiating red and green is most common – these are most often the colors used to convey meaning or differences. While using […]
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Captions and Transcripts Difficulty: Beginner Category: Principles Content Presentation In order for multimedia content to be perceivable to the Deaf and hard-of-hearing, captions and transcripts must be provided. Captions provide a synchronized text presentation of the audio content. Beyond providing basic accessibility to users with auditory disabilities, captions are also useful to other users in […]
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HTML5 Input Types HTML5 introduces several new form field types – search, tel (for telephone numbers), url, email, datetime, date, month, week, time, datetime-local, number, range, and color. While browser support currently varies (if they are not supported, browsers simply present a text input), it is getting better. These new input types will greatly facilitate […]
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Contributed by Joel Zimba, Technology Outreach Coordinator, MDTAP While both death and taxes may be the only certainties in life, the latter has left something to be desired when it comes to accessibility. You’ll be relieved to know that now, you too can make good on your civic obligation independently. The IRS makes all of […]
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