After revamping the Chequers Playgroup site several months back, another of the very first websites I built through LessFuss Design got a facelift at the weekend. Relish Restaurant & Bar, in Newton Flotman, Norwich, has had a redesign and rebuild so the owners Jeremy & Rachael Parke can manage all the content themselves – using WordPress, and a handfull of plugins to make their life even easier. Continue reading ‘Redesigned site: Relish Restaurant’ »
Last August I wrote a piece about using CSS to overcome a common problem for screen reader users with web forms – where help text associated with a field isn’t announced by screen readers when in Forms Mode. The CSS solution was convoluted and flaky in IE6. Fortunately there’s a better way: use aria-describedby. Continue reading ‘Using aria-describedby for form help text’ »
For screen reader users it can be both disorienting and frustrating if your form validation reloads the page when there’s an error on a field, and little (or no) feedback is given to the unsighted user. There’s many things you can do to make your error handling friendlier to screen reader users, but the easiest is probably also one of the most effective – add a “skip to errors” link right in front of your “skip navigation” link. Continue reading ‘Form validation & screen readers’ »
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