Note: This site is not actively maintained.
I still work in accessibility, just no longer on this website.
I may rekindle it at some point, but for now…
Header is Back!A little over a month ago, I removed the header elements from this site because content within a header is inaccessible to JAWS users with Firefox. Since then I’ve been thinking more about it, and have decided to put them all back. Continue reading Header is Back!
The Problem I noticed some interesting behaviour with VoiceOver 3 when working with data tables whose first cell in the first, or header, row is an empty td element. In these cases, VoiceOver does not correctly associate data cells with their proper column th header cells. Instead, VoiceOver seems to shift the header cells one column to the left, such… Continue reading VoiceOver and Tables with an Empty First Header Cell
Sometimes, often as a result of a web page’s layout or design, a label element cannot be used to identify a form control. Certainly, one can always use a visually hidden label, which is my preferred approach: you never know how the design might change in the future, at which point, if you’ve already got the label in the markup,… Continue reading Title Attributes as Form Control Labels