Adding features that help improve the accessibility of a website is a good thing. But sometimes accessibility features can conflict with each other when used inappropriately. Providing skip links while also setting the tab index on links is a good example of two common accessibility techniques which, if you’re not careful, can end up doing more harm than good. Continue reading ‘Skip links + tabindex = confusion’ »
Making a Flash movie accessible can be tricky enough, but before you can allow screen reader users to find their way around your Flash movie, they first have to know its even there. Setting the window mode (wmode) parameter to transparent or opaque is a common practice when embedding Flash – so it behaves itself on-screen – but the setting also renders the movie completely invisible to screen readers and keyboard controls. Continue reading ‘Flash window mode and accessibility’ »
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