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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Assistive Technologies Difficulty: Beginner Category: Principles Assistive technologies, or AT, are technologies that help one overcome some physical issue or limitation so they can function in ways they otherwise would be unable to. AT includes both software and hardware. It can range from screen readers which convey information audibly to those who have visual or […]
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Evaluating Web Accessibility on iDevices If you have an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, you have a screen reader. VoiceOver comes built-in to all modern Apple touchscreen devices. VoiceOver can be enabled in the device Settings, or by quickly pressing the Home button three times. The following core functions are available: Read the entire page: […]
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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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HTML5 Structural Elements and ARIA HTML5 introduces several new structural elements that will be very beneficial for accessibility: <nav> (for identifying navigational elements), <header> (a group of introductory or navigational aids), <article> <aside> (tangentially related content, such as a sidebar), and <footer> provide meaning to major page structural areas. These can also be used to […]
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