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How to help users understand a markup language's grammar accessibly
How might I describe the grammar of a markup language in an accessible way?
What I have
SVG diagrams of the grammar (directed graphs). Each element page has a graph representing what content can be in ...
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What are the specs that decide how a Screen Reader should behave?
I'm implementing a web application with high accessibility requirements. In come cases, the screen reader (VO) behaves in unexpected ways (for example, skips some elements).
To find out whether the ...
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Is it possible to delay announcement of title of a web page?
I have a web app with Single Page architecture so the <title> is updated programatically as the user navigates between client side rendered pages.
This works fine when the app is already opened. ...
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How do I write good alt text for a comic?
One of the things I'm interested in is web accessibility, particularly for knowledge bases such as Stack Exchange. One part of this is alt text for images - a text alternative for images, which is ...
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What would be the recommended level for "complementary" headers?
I am currently working on the accessibility of the open source software XWiki. I want to update the way we handle the headers on our page but I lack facts and information to back up this change.
Our ...
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What is a good aria-label for a button that opens a modal to pick a region and/or language for the webpage?
I have a <button> element that opens a modal to change the webpage region and/or language.
The <button> element needs an aria-label that gives the user information about what the modal ...
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Non Modal Persistent element - Best practices for tab sequence and general accessibility
We're working on a compare widget that appears when products are selected for comparison. This tray continues to persist as long as the products are in this widget. Even if users move to other pages.
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Accessibility reading order VS DOM order in a list of events
I'm trying to fix a CSS/DOM order problem on a website so it can pass an accessibility audit.
The problem is that the website is very visual, and the fixes must not change the appearance (as much as ...
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Using label and tabindex for non-selectable elements that give context about the page
My work is developing a page to display a filterable list of mortgage products. As you can imagine mortgages are really complex, so there's a lot of extra information that a sighted user can simply ...
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Do accessibility standards (WCAG AA) require a screen reader to announce an HTML element upon mouse hover?
We are using the screen reader NVDA. We have a website that we are trying to make WCAG AA compliant. If you use only a keyboard (no mouse), and use the Tab key to navigate around the page, whenever an ...
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Correct example, incorrect example (true/false box) as div, what aria to use?
so on website I'm building I have these div blocks, one block is for "correct example", and the other is for "Incorrect examples" (like Info & warning kinda thing)
I have the ...
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Should single input be wrapped in a form?
Should those single inputs be wrapped in <form> tags so that screen readers can announce them as such?
Sometimes in our project (Web based SaaS) we use single input fields to operate some ...
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Accessibility for a select tag that dynamically changes the URL of the following anchor tag [closed]
I have a simple anchor element and a script (not shown) that will dynamically change the URL of the anchor element when the select tag is changed (to the url in the data-url attribute):
<select>
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How to lead AT users from non-accessible content to an accessible alternative
The Drupal website I'm working on has a traditional grid style calendar. The main view of the calendar is based on the Full Calendar JS library. After testing it with a screen reader I decided it wasn'...
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Is using the @ (at sign) an acceptible replacement for the word "at" for screen readers?
When thinking foremost about accessibility, is there any issue in replacing the word "at" with the @ (at sign)?
Example 1: "meet me @ 2pm" vs. "meet me at 2pm"
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