Category Archives: W3C

WCAG Samurai published at @media

A little while ago Joe Clark asked me to review the WCAG Samurai’s WCAG 1 errata, which Joe has announced will be published today.

Also available is my independent review of the errata: WCAG Samurai Errata Review. Unbeknownst to me, Joe had also asked Gian Sampson-Wild, who’s review …

Note on Non-HTML formats

In my previous article on responsibilities in accessibility you might have noticed that I'd fallen into the traditional accessibility trap of only really referring to (X)HTML/CSS sites and guidelines. I'm quite aware of other technologies, but it's worth looking at why other formats are harder to make accessible.

Responsibilities in accessibility

The W3C has defined what to do for accessibility at each 'end' (i.e. client side or web site site), but there is quite a lot of overlap, and scant advice on who should be responsible for what. I'm going to try and show who's responsible now, and where things should go.

WCAG 2 response on relative units

I had submitted a comment on WCAG about relative units, and looking through my incoming links with Google's new external links tool, I discovered that they had taken it on, partially.

Firefox 3 accessibility

Firefox logo, a world icon wrapped up in a red fox. I've noticed that the Mozilla org has been doing quite a bit on accessibility, from working with IBM on Rich-apps accessibility, to funding people to make Firefox accessible with VoiceOver. Mark Pilgrim reports that Firefox 3 will include the option to block meta-redirects.

Internet Apps Roadmap - Questions

The Roadmap for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) outlines the technologies to map controls, AJAX live regions, and events to accessibility APIs, including custom controls used for Rich Internet Applications. This post just draws attention to things I (and Iperhaps other people) could do with some further explanation on.

WCAG 2 - relative units

I know, it's late. Very late. However, given the speed the process seems to work at, hopefully not too late. I added a comment to the WCAG 2 official list over the main missing item from my point of view: relative units.