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 ‘Web form help text & accessibility’ »
Conditional comments, combined with some browser-specific CSS, are a great way to get your website’s design & layout working in the various versions of Internet Explorer. But be careful, browser version targeting can soon have you and your website’s layout in knots unless you know exactly which browser(s) you want to target, and what CSS hacks to use. Continue reading ‘Conditional comments for Internet Explorer’ »
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