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sIFR default CSS hides content from at least one screen reader
Just a heads-up to anyone using sIFR to render text: the default CSS that comes with sIFR hides the replaced text from the VoiceOver screen reader. I don’t know if any others are affected – VoiceOver is the only screen reader I have been able to verify this problem in.
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Forgotten CSS selectors
Due to lack of support in Internet Explorer 6, web developers have been avoiding some very useful CSS 2.1 selectors. It's time to start using them.
Beware of “Web Page, complete” when saving HTML pages with your browser
Using the "Web Page, complete" (or similarly named) option when saving a page with a web browser will often change the markup.
XHTML Media Types Working Group Note updated
The W3C XHTML Media Types Note now includes compatibility guidelines and allows XHTML 1.1 documents to be served as text/html provided that they conform to those guidelines.
Unobtrusive JavaScript is not necessarily accessible JavaScript
There is no guarantee that a JavaScript that is unobtrusively implemented is also keyboard and screen reader accessible.
Embedding video files without JavaScript
A method for embedding video files with the HTML 5 video element, QuickTime or Flash that does not require JavaScript.
A call for consistent display of alt text across browsers
How browsers display alt text for missing images varies, so it would be nice to see this standardised by specifying the recommended behaviour in HTML 5.
Is SVG support coming to Internet Explorer?
The Senior Program Manager of Microsoft's Internet Explorer Team has announced that Microsoft has joined the W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group.
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