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Archive for August, 2009

22 Aug 2009

Typeface JS & font weight

Rather than exporting individual images or using PHP image replacement as I normally would, I recently tried out Typeface JS [external link] – a method that uses javascript to embed fonts – to make use of a non-standard typeface in the headings of a web design. Typeface JS is pretty easy to use, but there’s one thing to be wary of: how you use the font-weight property in your CSS. Continue reading »

11 Aug 2009

Web form help text & accessibility

In the last piece I did on accessible web forms, I mentioned that in Forms Mode the JAWS screen reader won’t announce any content in a form that isn’t marked up in a form HTML tag. 90% of the time you can make forms more accessible by using labels for each field, but sometimes you want to provide more information than can fit nicely into the label (e.g. some extra help text) without making a meal of the layout and styling. Here’s a way of styling content in an HTML label tag so it looks like it’s separate from the label, but will still get read out by screen readers. Continue reading »