Posts Tagged ‘HTML’

Ultimate checklist for making your plugin accessible

HTML  code semantics, forms, tables, Use CSS, Tabbed navigation, Colour contrast, WAI-ARIA attributes. HTML code semantics Following HTML code semantics is fundamental in making your web applications accessible because assistive technologies, like screen readers, rely on the code to transmit the correct information to the user. Forms are communly inaccurate due to a lack of the label [...]

Top Accessible WordPress themes

This assessment is very simplistic and constitutes a basic preliminary review. It is not comprehensive nor exhaustive. I chose themes from the Free Theme Directory and searched for Web Accessible and Accessibility. I narrowed my selection by considering which theme would be easily customizable, have good contrast between foreground and background, have elements in a [...]

Case Study

So I recently re-did one of my old websites. My client wanted to had some images so I took the opportunity to give her an accessible site. I had done this site a few years ago. I wasn’t aware back then of web standards and web accessibility. I must confess of using tables for layout. [...]

Podcast Five – Advanced Accessibility

Transcript of the podcast: [Intro music] Welcome to podcast five of Thinking Accessible. On today’s podcast I will talk to you about some advanced features in accessibility. First on the menu I will talk about accesskeys. Accesskeys are keystrokes that we can trigger on the keyboard to go directly to a certain element or a [...]

Podcast Four – Divide and Conquer

Transcript of the podcast: [Intro music] Welcome to podcast four of Thinking Accessible. Today’s podcast is called Divide and Conquer. I will talk to you about layout versus content. One of the keys of being successful in web standards is to divide the layout and the content.What I mean by this is that all the [...]