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IBM recently announced that they were developing a new browser with the potential to enable visually impaired users to access multimedia such as streaming video. Currently named A-Browser, the tool will give visually-impaired people the same control over multimedia content that sighted people currently have using a mouse.
My attention was recently caught by a post from Rosie Sherry called Showing web accessibility statements the door. In this post, Rosie wondered if perhaps web accessibility statements were being taken too far? She felt that, in general, accessibility statements were:
Web Accessibility Statements And User Support: continue reading …
During a discussion on the GAWDS mailing list, the following was raised:
Screen reader users frequently navigate using heading lists but, is their mental model of a page impaired if a header is skipped? Or are they quite happy as long as there are headers (with clearly associated content) that they can use? Is there a valid argument for deliberately omitting headers?
If table captions are block level elements, why doesn’t Internet Explorer 7 honour off-left positioning?
“The caption boxes are block-level boxes that retain their own content, padding, margin, and border areas, and are rendered as normal blocks inside the anonymous box.”
W3C CSS 2.1 Specification