Top "Accessibility" questions

Accessibility seeks to make an application or website usable by everyone, including people with disabilities such as visual, auditory, ambulatory, or cognitive impairment.

aria-live and JAWS

I'm trying to get an aria-live region to work correctly with JAWS 11 and IE8. Using the code below, I can …

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Programmatically enabling/disabling accessibility settings on Android device

How can I programmatically enable/disable an android screen reader service such as TalkBack? I am developing a kiosk type …

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Placeholder VS Label for input in HTML5

I'm Making a form with multiple inputs where I need to give lable of form element inside input itself and …

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Moving Accessibility Voiceover cursor focus to a specific element

I'm having an issue with moving the voiceover cursor to a specific element on viewDidAppear. I followed Apple's guidelines for …

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Should I have aside element ouside or inside of main element?

Let's say aside element includes "Oh, by the way …" content such as reading suggestions, advertisements, or cross sells. Is it …

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Can you use an <aside> element inside a <section role="main"> element?

I'm in the process of improving accessibility in my HTML using HTML5 and WAI-ARIA. It is OK to have the …

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Prevent background items from receiving focus while modal overlay is covering them?

I am working on making an overlay modal more accessible. It works essentially like this JSFiddle. When you open the …

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Accessibility and Android WebView

Is Accessibility enabled for Android WebView? Can anyone tell how to make a WebView accessible?

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Using aria-sort in validated HTML5

Assuming a static HTML table, such as: <table> <thead> <tr> <th scope="col" …

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