Month: April 2018

Categories
event

Upcoming Web Accessibility Events, Spring 2018

Here’s a great list of upcoming events relating to web accessibility.

Categories
keyboard tools

Force Focus Tools

When testing web accessibility, missing visual focus indicators is a “violation” of 2.4.7 Focus Visible. And when it fails, it also makes other checkpoints difficult to test (for sighted testers) such as focus order.

blue ring around the words "words cognitive concerns" in a block of text

To get around this problem, here are a few tools to help force a visual indication of keyboard focus. Keep in mind that sometimes the tool doesn’t work, usually due to extremely poor markup and lack of keyboard access entirely.

Do you know any others?

Bonus! Enter this in the browser console. Then the console with return the element which is currently focused.

document.addEventListener('focusin', function() {
  console.log(document.activeElement)
}, false)

More on visual focus indication:

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csun roundup

CSUNATC18 Wrap-Up—Resources and Tweets

Another CSUN Assistive Technology Conference has come and gone. Below are some great resources and tweets from the conference. Watch the keynote by Dan Goldstein via YouTube. Read my CSUN 18 preview.

Next year the event will move a bit north to Anaheim, California. CSUNATC19 is planned for March 11 to 15, 2019 at @AnaheimMarriott.

Resources

Tweets

https://twitter.com/dennisl/status/976682591532167168