Accessibility for a select tag that dynamically changes the URL of the following anchor tag
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>
<option value="" disa…
How should a screen reader pronounce links and buttons?
When a screen reader reads links, should they be pronounced as ‘Link button’, or ‘Link’?
Example: Show more… (a link): should the screen reader say ‘Link button’, or ‘Link’?
Also, how should the screen reader read an icon button? Should …
HTML Aria function not being read by screen reader – Bad design?
I’m looking into how accessible some websites are using WebAIM’s WAVE tool. Many websites nowadays use the burger menu symbol to indicate the menu (YouTube and Gmail for example) and often I see the Aria attribute being used to say ‘open-m…
Distinguishing aria-live speech from UI accessible names
We just ran our first user test of an accessible UI prototype with blind and partially-sighted testers. In spite of my efforts to follow the various recommendations and WCAG specifications, there were major issues.
By far the greatest of …