Aria-activedescendant is not focus | Sarah Higley
Who, what, when, where, and why is aria-activedescendant. Or: two focus outlines in a trenchcoat approach you in a dark alley and offer you a combobox.| Sarah Higley
I've been thinking, testing, and talking about custom select components and comboboxes a lot over the past year, and finally condensed all of it into a two-part series of articles written for 24 Accessibility. It covers both why this whole mess is so difficult and what patterns are out there, including the new ARIA 1.2 pattern in part 1, and then goes into the results of usability testing and concrete implementation recommendations in part 2.| Sarah Higley
Often when we talk about accessibility problems, we end up talking about a number of different errors that all boil down to a missing accessible name: form fields without labels, images without alts, icon buttons without readable text, and many more. A missing or incorrect accessible name in some form or other is right up there with poor color contrast in the list of most common accessibility errors across the web.| Sarah Higley
Who, what, when, where, and why is aria-activedescendant. Or: two focus outlines in a trenchcoat approach you in a dark alley and offer you a combobox.| Sarah Higley
A very simple step-by-step guide to creating a Mastodon account, with a focus on accessibility.| Sarah Higley
A review of the history and current state of tooltip accessibility. Or: everything you didn't know you needed to know before making a tooltip.| Sarah Higley
Did you ever want to escape from the humdrum confines of daily life, but weren't sure how? Focus on this article, and learn how to escape a whole plethora of situations! (results not guaranteed, may have unintended side effects)| Sarah Higley
Menus, trees, and grids, oh my! Debugging composite widget semantics with browser devtools.| Sarah Higley
The beginning of a series on interactive grid accessibility, starting with a look at when you need a grid, a table, or neither.| Sarah Higley
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
A look at sequential-focus-navigation-starting-point and what it means for focus handling| Sarah Higley
A short article, as a contrast. Just a few simple tips to improve Windows High Contrast Mode experience.| Sarah Higley
