Monthly report for May 2018
7 Lessons from Developing an Accessible HTML 5 Video Player – Paul Schantz
This post-mortem was written in 2015 and browsers support has greatly improved over the last years, but it remains valid for the most part.
Designing Accessible Web Content for Older Users
This video is taken from the Inclusive Design #24 conference held in 2017. Speaker is Makoto Ueki, chairman of WAIC in Japan.Accessible web design for people with disabilities often benefits older users. Findings from usability tests with older users show common issues for accessible web design.
PWAs in any context
Video from Progressive Web App Summit 2016, by Rob Dodson. My takeaways:- Roving tabindex
- Managing focus
- Don’t fight the platform
- ARIA does not change behavior
- WAI-ARIA authoring practices
speak-as- CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
The@counter-styledescriptor is still at “Editor’s draft” level (https://drafts.csswg.org/css-counter-styles-3/#counter-style-speak-as) but would allow screen readers to properly say aloud the CSS counters.