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 […]
Author: Becka11y
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 […]
Presentation on HTML5 Accessibility
I presented HTML5 Accessibility at the 5th Annual online Accessibility Summit in September, 2014. I also presented this topic at Knowbility’s AccessU in May, 2014. I have posted a link to a zip file of the slides, the code and media examples, and the captioned versions of the screen reader demos. Note that the captioned […]
Keyboard Navigation in Mac Browsers
Application Tab Key Navigation There are a few settings to be aware of when using the keyboard on a Mac. There is a Keyboard System Preference to allow full tab key navigation. The setting is in the keyboard pane at the bottom of the shortcuts tab panel. It is labeled, “Full Keyboard Access: In windows […]
WordPress Accessibility
I saw the following post mentioned on twitter: WordPress Themes Suck at Accessibility: It’s Time to Fix It. It is a great post with comments from the author of the accessible theme, Simone. I decided I really should be using an accessible theme so I updated this blog to use Simone. Thanks Sarah Gooding for […]
VoiceOver Tidbits
These are just a few things that I looked up about VoiceOver that I do not want to forget. In order to find them again I figured I might as well post them here! Speaking Numbers VoiceOver has a setting to indicate if numbers should be spoken as words or digits. This is a bit […]
CSS Overflow:auto and VoiceOver
Motivation I’ve been playing around a bit with Dojo Mobile. My goal is to relearn Dojo and to build an accessible Web app for iOS. Unfortunately not all of the Dojo Mobile components are fully accessible, yet (the team is working on it). The app I am building is fairly simple – an app to […]
Using the Orion Editor
I decided to take a look into Orion – an eclipse project that is touted as, “An open source platform for cloud based development”. I see that you can add it into your blog and thought it might be useful for showing some of the Dojo Mobile code I am developing. This post is a […]
Learning Dojo Mobile
It has certainly been awhile since I posted to this blog! I’m resurrecting it to post about a development topic that I hope will become accessibility related. Basically I need to learn Dojo Mobile and I thought I would describe my learning process here. I worked on Dojo several years ago to make the core […]