Accessibility articles
Data Table Accessibility Test Update
October 2007 and March 2008
We have revised the test tables for testing the markup of complex data tables. Please test the accessibility of these tables and send us your opinions.
Source order, skip links and structural labels
January 2006
Roger Hudson, Russ Weakley and Lisa Miller
Is page source order important to screen reader users? This paper reports on our research into the relevance and importance of page source order, skip links and structural labels for screen reader users.
Page Source Order & Accessibility
December 2005
Roger Hudson and Russ Weakley
Presentation to OzeWAI 2005
Disabilities and Technologies
October 2005
How many people have disabilities? And, what sort of technologies do people with disabilities use to access the Web? Some answers to these questions.
Accessible Data Tables
July 2005
Improving the effective accessibility of data tables and preliminary results from the data table markup tests.
Data Table Accessibility Test Page
June 2005
Please test the accessibility of these different data table markups and send us your opinions.
An Accessibility Frontier: Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties
January 2005
The needs of people with cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties appear to have slipped through the cracks when it comes to web accessibility...
Paper presented at OZeWAI Conference, December 2004.
Navigation Accessibility 1: Menus and Links
July 2004
The placement and design of navigation menus can greatly influence the accessibility of a site for people with disabilities...
Navigation Accessibility 2: Navigation Menus and Links
July 2004
Helping the user locate and go to a web page is crucial to site navigation, but it is only part of the story...
PDFs and Accessibility
May 2004
The widespread use of Portable Document Format material on many sites continues to cause problems for some web users...
Flash and Accessibility
November 2003
Flash can both enhance and diminish the accessibility of a site ...
Text Alternatives for Images
September 2003
The provision of appropriate text alternatives for images is a key accessibility issue...
Accessible Forms
July 2004
This document is concerned with what the user of a Website form "sees" and interacts with and how you can create forms that are more accessible...