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The next release of Able Player is out today! This release continues the process of modernizing Able Player, but also includes some useful new key| Joe Dolson Web Accessibility
Accessibility Show number eight was a fun one. For most shows, I’ve searched out specific sites that demonstrate particular problems so that we can demonstrate different ways that problem shows up in real sites. For this one, however, I wanted to show something else, as well: how ubiquitous keyboard accessibility problems really are. So instead of carefully pre-selecting sites, I just grabbed the first ones in the list as I saw it at the time. It would have been nice […]| Joe Dolson Web Accessibility
What is it about software maintenance that makes it interesting? Why should we love software maintenance in open source software?| Joe Dolson Web Accessibility
WP Accessibility 2.2.0 includes one major new feature and one substantial change. New Feature: Video Pausing The major new feature is an option that will| Joe Dolson Web Accessibility
Able Player version 4.7.0 beta 1 is now ready for testing - and your feedback is welcome! There are quite a few bug fixes in this release, a fair amount| Joe Dolson Web Accessibility
The seventh episode of The Accessibility Show is now out! This one was an interesting change of pace. I was asked to take a look at the site for another of Nathan’s podcasts: The No Script Show, the brain child of David Waumsley. The premise for the No Script Show is fundamentally interesting to me. The show is about stripping away the baggage of page and site builders and working on the fundamentals of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and CSS […]| Joe Dolson Web Accessibility
I was asked a completely reasonable question today: what is it that the video element sucks at where Able Player excels? The framing of this is basically| Joe Dolson Web Accessibility
I released my first update version of Able Player today, along with the major update to the Able Player WordPress plugin. This isn’t a particularly ambitious release of Able Player, but it does resolve a lot of long-standing bugs, modernizes some of the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and cleans up a variety of issues in the package. I’ll be continuing with the practice of keeping the Able Player documentation in place on Github, so you can read the complete changelog […]| Joe Dolson Web Accessibility
After taking over Able Player, I received feedback from various sources about the kinds of problems people are having with the accessible media player.| Joe Dolson Web Accessibility
Yes, I’m aware that it’s still in beta. But as it stands right now, Figma Sites are a clear path to creating an incredible mess of a site. If you look at just a tiny microcosm of the code in the launch demo for Figma Sites, it’s obvious that the code does not even tip a hat in the direction of semantics. Here’s a single link in the “top” navigation of the page (quotes are intentional): What’s in a link? […]| Joe Dolson Web Accessibility
Accessibility overlays are a peculiar approach to accessibility problems. They make many assumptions that demonstrate a failure to understand assistive| Joe Dolson Web Accessibility
The application of machine learning to accessibility is not new, but as AI explodes in popularity, it’s certainly getting more attention. Auto-craptions| Joe Dolson Web Accessibility