The online holiday shopping coupled with my need to make a new invoice template got me looking at a common table structure that is harder to expose to screen readers than it seems at first glance. One I first coded in, checks watch, 1997 when I was an ecommerce developer…| Adrian Roselli
I have written a bunch about responsive tables. Maybe too much. I keep trying to give developers the information they need to make informed decisions — ARIA attributes, screen reader & browser pairing results, bugs, and so on. I have spread things out over years of posts. I have filed…| Adrian Roselli
It was late 2020 when I last tested how browsers use CSS display properties to break the semantics of elements. I had been waiting for Safari to fix how it handles display: contents for four years now, and was excited when the announcement came in June. Then I started testing…| Adrian Roselli
Update: 7 October 2023 Tables with display properties are now functional across Chromium, Gecko, and (finally) WebKit browsers. Barring regressions (which have happened), display: contents is the only style that may cause issues, and that is a function of a poor specification. My post It’s Mid-2022 and Browsers (Mostly Safari)…| Adrian Roselli
A disclosure widget is a simple control whose sole purpose is to hide or show stuff. Native HTML has one built in via the and elements. Until recently, if you wanted to use it in modern browsers you needed to use a polyfill. In most cases it was…| Adrian Roselli
A dive into table and grid semantics, why they matter so much to screen readers, and your options for repairing or augmenting basic table markup.| Sarah Higley