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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.

Posted on February 8, 2010 in Accessibility, CSS, Typography

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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.

Posted on February 4, 2010 in CSS

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.

Posted on February 1, 2010 in Browsers, Quick Tips

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.

Posted on January 29, 2010 in (X)HTML

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.

Posted on January 26, 2010 in Accessibility, JavaScript

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.

Posted on January 25, 2010 in (X)HTML, HTML 5

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.

Posted on January 20, 2010 in Accessibility, Browsers, Usability, Web Standards

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.

Posted on January 18, 2010 in Browsers, Web Standards

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