How to map your Mac's CapsLock key to a NVDA or JAWS key in a Windows virtual machine
Article CapsLockKey How to map your Mac's CapsLock key to a NVDA or JAWS key in a Windows virtual machine OK folks, this is hopefully it, the ultimate way to map the CapsLock key of your MacBook to be used as a NVDA or JAWS modifier key in a virtual machine running Windows. The problem The MacBook’s keyboard has no insert key. The insert key, however, is the main modifier key used by screen reader
Apple are losing their edge also in accessibility quality - Marco's Accessibility Blog
This post was originally published in January of 2015, and has last been updated on April 10, 2015, with latest information on the mentioned problems in light of the OS X 10.10.3 and iOS 8.3 releases from April 8, 2015. Over the past couple of days, a number of well-known members in the Apple community raised their voices in concern about Apple’s general decline in software quality. Marco Arment (
Revisiting the "Switch to Android full-time" experiment - Marco's Accessibility Blog
Just over a year ago, I conducted an experiment to see whether it would be possible for me to switch to an Android device full-time for my productive smartphone needs. The conclusion back then was that there were still too many things missing for me to productively switch to Android without losing key parts of my day to day usage. However, there were several changes over the past 15 or so months t
WAI-ARIA for screen reader users: An overview of things you can find in some mainstream web apps today - Marco's Accessibility Blog
After my recent post about WAI-ARIA, which was mostly geared towards web developers, I was approached by more than one person on Twitter and elsewhere suggesting I’d do a blog post on what it means for screen reader users. Well, I’ve got news for all my blind and visually impaired readers: You’re not getting one blog post, you’re getting a whole series instead! 🙂 This blog post will kick it off,
What is WAI-ARIA, what does it do for me, and what not? - Marco's Accessibility Blog
What is WAI-ARIA, what does it do for me, and what not? On March 20, 2014, the W3C finally published the WAI-ARIA standard version 1.0. After many years of development, refinement and testing, it is now a web standard. But I am often asked again and again: What is it exactly? What can it do for me as a web developer? And what can it not do? I often find that there are assumptions made about WAI-AR
Switching back to Windows
This post is no longer current. For an update on the reasons why, read this post. The below post is kept for historic reasons, since they reflect my thoughts and reasoning from that time. Yes, you read correctly! After five years on a Mac as my private machine, I am switching back to a Windows machine in a week or so, depending on when Lenovo’s shipment arrives. You are probably asking yourself, w
Why accessibility APIs matter - Marco's Accessibility Blog
This morning, Victor from payPal and I got into an exchange on Twitter regarding the ChromeVox extension. ChromeVox is a Chrome extension which provides screen reading functionality for blind users. Through keyboard commands, the user can navigate page content by different levels like object by object, heading by heading, form control by form control, etc. Wait, you might say, but this is screen r
Are web apps accessible enough to replace desktop applications any time soon? - Marco's Accessibility Blog
I know, reflections on things usually happen at years-end time, but to be honest, this blog post has been in my head for the last two-and-a-half years, and has thus “seen” a number of year-ends, so I felt that it’s now finally time to put it in writing. I’ve been with Mozilla since December of 2007 and have seen quite a number of things happening since I started. I was there when Firefox 3 came ou
If you use the WAI-ARIA role "application", please do so wisely! - Marco's Accessibility Blog
This goes out to all web developers out there reading this blog and implementing widgets and other rich content in HTML, CSS and JavaScript! If you think of using the WAI-ARIA role “application” in your code, please do so with caution and care! And here’s why: What is it? 🔗 “application” is one of the WAI-ARIA landmark roles. If you’d like to read up on landmarks, please go here. It is used to de
What's up with all those windows?
Article WindowClass What's up with all those windows? This blog post has to do with the reasons why Firefox 4.0Beta 5 and Beta 6 are totally inaccessible to most, if not all, Windows assistive technologies, and also cause problems with some mouse drivers and such. It all started with Bug 130078, a sequence of digits probably everyone in the Mozilla platform team will memorize for a long time. 😉 W
CSUN 2010 recap - Marco's Accessibility Blog
From March 22 to 27, the 5th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference took place at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Diego, California. It is most commonly referred to as CSUN 2010. The Mozilla Foundation had a booth at CSUN for the fourth year in a row. David, Alexander Surkov and I were present to man the booth, talk to people, and also participate in a coupl
Easy ARIA Tip #4: Landmarks - Marco's Accessibility Blog
Yes, they’re back! This is the fourth Easy ARIA Tip in a trilogy of Easy ARIA Tips. 🙂 This week, WebAIM published the results of their second screen reader survey. One of the things to note for me was that not many users seem to be aware of a feature in the WAI-ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) specification called landmarks. This article aims to provide an easy to follow guide to impl
Easy ARIA Tip #1: Using aria-required - Marco's Accessibility Blog
Inspired by a conversation I had with Aaron the other day, I’m starting a mini series about easy accessibility improvements you can accomplish using ARIA, but which do not require you to implement a whole widget. Some ARIA attributes also work on plain old standard HTML elements and can easily improve accessibility within supported browsers and screen readers. On browsers that do not support these
Easy ARIA tip #2: aria-labelledby and aria-describedby - Marco's Accessibility Blog
Sorry it took me so long to get back to it, but here it is, my second tip on the usage of some easy ARIA markup to make your sites more accessible. Imagine this: You have a form where you ask your user a question, but the answer is actually part of the sentence the question is made of. A classic example we all know from our browser settings is the setting “Delete history after x days”. “Delete his
Easy ARIA tip #3: aria-invalid and role "alert" - Marco's Accessibility Blog
I know, I know, it’s been a while since I posted my last Easy ARIA tip. But I’m hoping that this one will find you all excited and willing to play with it some more! The problem: You have a form, a contact form, for example, that you want to put some accessible error checking into. Common problems are e-mail addresses that are not valid, or a name that does not contain at least a first and a surna
The WAI-ARIA Windows screen reader shootout - Marco's Accessibility Blog
Firefox 3.5 has been released, and now it’s time to take a look at what features of WAI-ARIA are being supported by which Windows screen reader. Competition is healthy in this market, and two new screen readers have started supporting Firefox during the 3.5 development cycle: Dolphin’s Hal/SuperNova and Serotek’s System Access (including the free SAToGo offering). So to document the current state
New accessibility features in Firefox 3.5
Firefox 3.5 is fast approaching, and it’s time to list all the user-visible changes to the accessibility support in this new version! Support for text attributes, formatting and spell checking Firefox 3.5 exposes text attributes such as bold, underlined, and color information through the AT-SPI and IAccessible2 attributes properties of their respective AccessibleText interfaces. Information about
My first experience using an accessible touch screen device - Marco's Accessibility Blog
Yes, you read correctly: An accessible touch screen device! This morning, I went to a retail store carrying mostly Apple products and had a look at the new iPhone 3G S that was released in Germany on Friday. Apple revealed during the WWDC keynote two weeks ago that it would have a built-in screen reader named the same as is included in Mac OS X: VoiceOver. This is a feature not available on the re
ARIA in Gmail #2: Enhancing the Chat experience - Marco's Accessibility Blog
This post continues a series on the implementation of ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) in Gmail. On July 30, Orca team lead Willie Walker forwarded a message to the Orca mailing list titled Orca & gmail. The message is originally by Srinivas Annam, an accessibility web developer at Google. He describes a couple of enhancements that had been made to the Gmail user interface and were pus
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JavaScript is not an enemy of accessibility! - Marco's Accessibility Blog