I am a Mac user but I need to test with JAWS and/or NVDA. I use Parallels to run a Windows VM on my Mac. I only test Web applications in the browsers. The main problem I have found is that there is no ins key on a Mac keyboard. I finally saved the mechanism […]
Author: Becka11y
Screen Reader Support for new HTML5 Section Elements
Introduction I will be giving a talk at John Slatin AccessU on May 9, 2016 on HTML5 Accessibility. I will be discussing the new elements in HTML5 that help to support better accessibility. I was doing some research on how well some of these elements are supported by the various screen readers and thought I […]
CSUN 2016
Wow, it has been an entire year since I have posted in this blog! It must be time to start doing more interesting things in Accessibility again! I spoke on EPUB at CSUN 2016 (short name for the International Technology and Persons with Disability Conference). I promised I would post my presentation. Since Microsoft hasn’t […]
Reflections on CSUN 2015
I attended The 30th Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference (known as CSUN) from March 4-6, 2015. I haven’t been to CSUN for several years. I did attend briefly last year but had to leave after my presentation on the first day to attend a funeral. The conference has certainly changed over the […]
Adding Captioned Video to an HTML5 page
This is the last post in the series, Creating and Captioning a Screen Reader Demo. I have 3 versions of my video file in .mp4, .webm, and .ogv format. I have a timed text track file in WebVTT format. Now I just need to put them together on an HTML5 page. This part is fairly […]
Creating and Editing Captions
This is the fourth in a series of posts about Capturing and Captioning a Screen Reader Demo. I should start by saying that there is a difference between captions and subtitles although the terms are often interchanged. Subtitles just provide the actual spoken text while captions provide a thorough description of all of the sounds […]
Converting File Formats
This is the third in a series of posts about Capturing and Captioning a Screen Reader Demo. I have a recording of a screen reader demo that I want to post on the Web using the HTML5 <video> tag. The current format is .avi. In order to have the video work in both Windows and […]
Recording a Screen Reader Demo
This is the second post in a series on Capturing and Captioning a Screen Reader Demo. Recording the demo means capturing the video on the screen as well as the audio from the screen reader and my verbal explanations. Since I am using the JAWS screen reader I will be working in Windows 7 via […]
Capturing and Captioning a Screen Reader Demo
I spoke at a conference where I wanted to give a demo of using a web application with the JAWS screen reader. Since I am not an expert screen reader user, I find that it is easier to record the demo rather than trying to give it live. With a recording, I can also post […]
High Contrast Mode Primer
This is actually a copy of an old post from 2007 that originally appeared on the Dojo blog. It has disappeared from the Web but I recreated it with the help of the wayback machine. While it does reference older operating systems, XP and OS X Tiger, the general information is still relevant. Often when […]