Adrian Roselli tagged me in his Tag, you're it post in March, and it's taken me until now to get to it!| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
This recipe for sticky pork belly slices is one where you can turn up the heat if you like your food with a chilli kick to it. Otherwise, it's just sweet and sticky and just a little bit crunchy all the way.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
I wrote about the advantages of wearable AI tech for blind people back in 2020, when I bought a pair of Envision Glasses. At the time they felt revolutionary, and indeed they were, but they never became part of my everyday tech. I've had my pair of Ray-Ban Meta Glasses for a few months now, and they've already become part of my daily routine, just like my phone and my watch.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Making French onion soup can be a bit of a faff, especially when it comes to caramelising the onions, but if you're not in a hurry, you can use a slow cooker to make it instead.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Last Sunday I went to see Stranger Things: The First Shadow, at the Phoenix theatre in London. If you like the Stranger Things Netflix series, you'll love the play - and I absolutely did! What really made my day was that it was a performance with live Audio Description (AD) and a touch tour beforehand.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Jakob Nielsen thinks that accessibility has failed.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Today I was given early access to the BeMyAI beta, a feature that's being added to the BeMyEyes iOS app using ChatGPT4.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The case for CSS Speech is not just about screen readers, but they do of course matter. Whenever the topic is mentioned, someone will contact me to say they worry about websites taking over their screen reader and making content less accessible instead of more enjoyable.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
In these times when almost every device and platform is capable of talking to you, you may be surprised to learn that there is no way for authors to design the aural presentation of web content, in the way they can design the visual presentation.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Using one element or set of elements (usually because of their functionality) and styling them to look like something else is a common pattern. A recent conversation about using radio buttons styled to look like buttons highlighted the essential problem with this approach - it creates a mismatch between the actions people expect they can take and the ones they actually can.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
In a blog post on writing great alt text, Jake Archibald asked "Should skin tone be mentioned in alt text?". It's a good question, and one I've asked myself as a blind person, so Jake's post has prompted me to do some thinking out loud...| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The 15th in a series of posts that bring together the two sides of my blog: food and technology. I’ve asked the great and the good from the web standards community to share their favourite recipes. This meltingly good goulash recipe comes from Patrick H. Lauke.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The provision of text alternatives has been a first principle of accessibility since before WCAG 1.0 made it official in 1999, but apparently not everyone has got the message. According to the WebAIM Million from February 2020, more than 30% of homepage images were missing text descriptions and more than half of those images were part of links.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
We humans put a lot of effort into seeing. When our eyes are open, vision accounts for two thirds of the electrical activity in our brain; 40% of the nerve fibres that are connected into the brain relate to vision; and more of our neurons are dedicated to vision than the other senses combined. We consume huge quantities of visual data every day and most people think nothing of it.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
When a table is created using the appropriate HTML elements (or ARIA roles) screen readers can inform users about the characteristics of the table, and users have access to keyboard commands specifically for navigating tabular content.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The 14th in a series of posts that bring together the two sides of my blog: food and technology. I’ve asked the great and the good from the web standards community to share their favourite recipes. This versatile recipe comes from Amelia Bellamy-Royds.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
I've loved pork rillettes since my family used to holiday in France during the summers of my childhood. I have many happy memories of sitting around the kitchen table in the cottage owned by friends in Parcay-Meslay, spreading rillettes onto slices of baguette with a good sprinkling of salt, accompanied with crunchy cornichons and (when I was older) a glass of wine from an unlabelled bottle courtesy of one of the local vineyards.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The aria-roledescription attribute changes the way screen readers announce the role of an element. Intended to give authors a way to provide a localised and human-readable description for a role, it has the capacity to both enhance and seriously break accessibility for screen reader users.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The 13th in a series of posts that bring together the two sides of my blog: Food and technology. I’ve asked the great and the good from the web standards community to share their favourite recipes. This mouth-watering chicken dish is from Eric Meyer.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
People often presume I would jump at the chance to be able to see again. The fact of the matter is that I really don't know whether I would or not, because there is more to it than you might think.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Updated on 27th February 2019: The Accessibility Object Model (AOM) specification has been updated and accessibleNode has been dropped. Read the AOM explainer for more information.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
SVG has no native semantics for representing structures like tables, but ARIA1.1 introduces a number of roles that can be used to polyfill the necessary semantic information.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
It's possible to use a single custom domain with multiple Github repositories that use Github Pages. The available documentation makes it seem more complicated than it is, so this is an effort to provide some more simple instructions.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) is a suite of specifications from the W3C. Knowing which specification has the information you need isn't always obvious, so this post briefly introduces each specification and where it fits into the overall ARIA landscape.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
It is common on the web for the current thing in a collection to be highlighted visually, but providing an alternative for screen reader users has often involved something of a hack. The aria-current attribute is intended to solve this problem.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Emoji help us communicate complex ideas very easily. When used in native apps and applications, emoji are reasonably accessible to screen readers, but on the web we need to do a little more to make sure everyone can understand emoji.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Narrator is the integrated screen reader for Windows 10. The August 2nd Windows 10 Anniversary update introduces several new Narrator features, including a Narrator mode designed specifically for developers.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
When my friend Tim Norris posted this to Facebook recently, it made me stop and think. One of those "thinks" was that his words were worth sharing, so here (with Tim's permission) they are...| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Let me ask you a question: Would you enter your password into a password field, if you couldn’t be confident it was protected from being viewed by other people? The answer is probably not, but a proposed ARIA role could put screen reader users in exactly this position.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The ARIA application role changes the way screen readers interact with web content. Several good articles explain (rightly) why the application role should be used with caution, but this post looks at a use case where the application role is used to good effect.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
This is one of my favourite winter things. You can make it at any time of year of course, but there is something about the smell of apples and spices that makes me all warm and fuzzy. You might put that down to the cider, I couldn't possibly comment...| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The 12th in a series of posts that bring together the two sides of my blog: Food and technology. I’ve asked the great and the good from the web standards community to share their favourite recipes. This versatile dessert is from Adrian Roselli.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
When a parent/child relationship is evident on-screen, but it isn’t represented in the DOM, the aria-owns attribute can be used to establish that relationship in the accessibility layer.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
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When keyboard access doesn't work, the Jaws screen reader makes it possible to explore content using simulated mouse movements instead. This function is broken in Firefox, due to changes made (some time ago) in its graphics rendering engine. This post describes a workaround that has proved successful for some.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Updated on 4th February 2018.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
When a friend generously gave me some saffron recently, it presented me with an opportunity to make crème brulée with a little extra magic in it. crème brulée is ridiculously easy to make, exudes classic style, and even has an element of danger about it... so even if (like me) you rarely eat dessert, what's not to like?| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Many websites provide keyboard shortcuts for common tasks. Keyboard shortcuts are useful things to have, but the way in which they’re provided is often problematic for Windows screen reader users.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The CSS before/after pseudo-selectors can be used to insert content into a page. In some situations this technique is a useful thing to do, but how do browsers and screen readers handle the generated content?| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Search engines have ways of extracting meaning from content, but they're prone to error because information on the webb can be presented in so many different ways. Marking up information so it's easier for search engines to index is a good thing to do, and thanks to the vocabularies available from schema.org it's also very easy.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
When a web application has a session timeout, it’s a good idea to warn users about the impending timeout and give them the opportunity to do something about it. It’s therefore important to make sure that all users know when the warning notification appears.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The 11th in a series of posts that bring together the two sides of my blog: Food and technology. I’ve asked the great and the good from the web standards community to share their favourite recipes. This bundle of awesome Chinese dishes is from Henny Swan.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
There are a handful of ARIA1.0 attributes that can be used to indicate relationships between elements, when those relationships can’t be ascertained easily from the DOM. One such attribute is aria-controls.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
TPAC is the annual gathering of the W3C. It was held at the Santa Clara Marriott between 27th and 31st October 2014.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Breakfast at the weekend can be delightfully indulgent, and sometimes the simple things are the most tempting of all. Throw in some interesting company, a little conversation and this uncomplicated breakfast, and that's my idea of heaven on a Sunday.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The subject of screen reader detection has been under discussion lately. It isn’t something I’m comfortable with, so I’d like to share the reasons why.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The Cyber Streetwise website was launched by the UK Home Office in January. Developed by Nudge Digital, Cyber Streetwise is a high profile website intended to change attitudes towards online security. It is also a complete travesty when it comes to accessibility.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Potato dauphinoise is ridiculously easy to make, gloriously indulgent and absolutely delicious. It goes well with anything from a lamb roast to a good steak, but my favourite is potato dauphinoise with confit of duck!| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
There is an unusual problem with Jaws and Internet Explorer that causes the word "region" to be announced before every field in a form. Fortunately there is a workaround until the problem itself is resolved.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The tenth in a series of posts that bring together the two sides of my blog: Food and technology. I’ve asked the great and the good from the web standards community to share their favourite recipes. This beautifully written Italian recipe is from Joseph Karr O'Connor.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Most current screen readers support ARIA to one extent or another, and many now support some features of HTML5 as well. With ARIA and HTML5 making increasing amounts of semantic data available to screen reader users, it’s really easy to inadvertently overload people with too much information.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The ninth in a series of posts that bring together the two sides of my blog: Food and technology. I’ve asked the great and the good from the web standards community to share their favourite recipes. This easy pasta dish is from Graham Armfield.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The Image Description extension re-introduces the longdesc attribute to HTML. Although most people recognise that longdesc is flawed, finding a viable alternative has proved surprisingly difficult. For now longdesc is the best solution we have, but in the interests of finding a better option perhaps it's helpful to take a step back and look at the problem we’re trying to solve.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
HTML5 includes a handful of sectioning elements that give documents a robust semantic structure. The header, footer, nav, article, section and aside elements give different regions of a document meaning. Amongst other things, that meaning can be understood by screen readers, and the information used to help blind and partially sighted people orient themselves and navigate around the page.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
This recipe is fabulous for brunch on Christmas eve, or any lazy weekend when you’re feeling indulgent. Cheating is perfectly acceptable if you don’t want to make the Hollandaise sauce from scratch, but it tastes even better when you’ve done it all yourself!| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Updated: 1 November 2018| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
With Guy Fawkes’ night coming up, these cheeseburgers and sweet potato wedges are great to eat before you head out to enjoy the fireworks. They’re incredibly easy to make, and madly versatile, so you can rustle them up anytime throughout the year.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
HTML5 has changed the way we build websites and online applications. It introduces lots of new features, many of which make inclusive design much more achievable.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Windows 8 introduces several improvements to Narrator, its built in speech capability. Like VoiceOver in the early days, there is much that Narrator doesn’t do, but it already has many of the characteristics you’d expect to find in a screen reader.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Windows 8 is a big change from Windows 7. With features like the Metro start screen and charm bar, the interface has been completely reworked and the focus is on touch screen devices. That also means a whole new set of shortcut keys for keyboard devices too.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
ARIA landmark roles provide a useful way for screen reader users to navigate through web pages, and to understand the purpose of different sections of content on the page. With just a little bit more ARIA you can make landmarks even more helpful to blind and partially sighted people.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Tabbed interfaces are increasingly common on web pages. They make good use of space, and they can be visually intuitive. Using tabs with a screen reader is a different experience though.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The eighth in a series of posts that bring together the two sides of my blog: Food and technology. I’ve asked the great and the good from the web standards community to share their favourite recipes. This tasty recipe is from Jeremy Keith.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The seventh in a series of posts that bring together the two sides of my blog: Food and technology. I’ve asked the great and the good from the web standards community to share their favourite recipes. This hearty feast is from David Sloan.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The sixth in a series of posts that bring together the two sides of my blog: Food and technology. I’ve asked the great and the good from the web standards community to share their favourite recipes. This fabulous outdoors recipe is from Jared Smith.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
This post was updated on 8th July 2012, to reflect changes in the Windows 8 release edition.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The fifth in a series of posts that bring together the two sides of my blog: Food and technology. I’ve asked the great and the good from the web standards community to share their favourite recipes. This tasty fondue recipe is from Dennis Lembree.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The fourth in a series of posts that bring together the two sides of my blog: Food and technology. I’ve asked the great and the good from the web standards community to share their favourite recipes. This tempting vegetarian recipe is from Gez Lemon.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The third in a series of posts that bring together the two sides of my blog: Food and technology. I’ve asked the great and the good from the web standards community to share their favourite recipes. This beautiful chocolate pudding is from Wendy Chisholm.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The second in a series of posts that bring together the two sides of my blog: Food and technology. I’ve asked the great and the good from the web standards community to share their favourite recipes. This sumptuous Thai recipe is from Bruce Lawson.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The first in a series of posts that bring together the two sides of my blog: Food and technology. I’ve asked the great and the good from the web standards community to share their favourite recipes. This gorgeous salsa recipe is from John Foliot.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
I inherited my love of bacon and marmalade sandwiches from my mum, along with much else. They’re one of the many ways I’ll always remember her.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
HTML5 introduces the nav element for marking up sections of a page that contain navigational links. Used wisely the nav element is a big help to screen reader users, as well as a step forward in semantic meaning.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Caramelised onion chutney is the "little black dress" of the condiment world. You can use it anywhere. Chuck it on pizza with some goats cheese, add a spoonful to your gravy, spread it on melted cheese on toast, or try a little with a plate of cold cuts, olives and fresh bread.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Updated: 26th November 2015.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The weather is glorious at the moment! It’s perfect for eating al fresco, and this recipe is great for lunch or dinner. Team it up with a crisp white wine, then sit back and enjoy the sunshine.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Inclusive design is an aspirational concept. It isn't particularly inspirational though. Inclusive design is a phrase for client meetings and government papers. No harm in that, but it isn’t a phrase that rocks the world and inspires us to challenge the accepted status quo.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Updated on 3rd July 2017: this post is out of date, please read Using the aria-current attribute instead.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
This video demonstrates how ARIA landmark roles help screen reader users understand the purpose of different areas of a web page. ARIA landmark roles can be used to navigate through a page and easily identify the purpose of key areas such as navigation, search or main content.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
In 1997, Mary Schmich published a guide to life in the Chicago Tribune. In 1999, Baz Lurhmann turned it into a chillout anthem called Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen). It was, and remains, some of the best advice for life I've ever heard...| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
With the first signs of spring upon us, it’s time to get out into the garden at weekends. It’s often still chilly in the evenings though, so this slow cooked chicken casserole is fabulous for those busy outdoor days! It’s easy to throw together before you head outside, and the smell of rosemary and tomatoes (with freshly baked bread) is gloriously welcoming when you come back in.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The California State University Northridge 26th Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference, referred to simply as CSUN, was an extraordinary few days. People from all over the world gathered to share knowledge and discuss ideas. Here are a few highlights from the web stream.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
NVDA is one of a new generation of access technologies for blind and partially sighted people. It's given thousands of blind people a chance to use a computer, and it's the darling of the open standards community, but on 19th January NVDA's developers sent out an urgent SOS.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
You are lost, deep in the darkness of the land of the dead. Your eyes are useless to you here — but your ears are filled with sound. Thus the scene is set for Papa Sangre, one of the most stylish (and screen reader friendly) games on the iOS platform.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
When the cold winter weather sets in, there’s nothing like a bowl of home made soup and some Ffresh bread to warm you up. Leek and potato soup is one of my favourites and I love spending an hour or so on a Sunday morning putting a batch together.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Screen reader support for tables is something of a curiosity. Although tables are among the most common of HTML elements, they’re often misused and poorly coded. To some extent this has influenced screen reader support, but even so the variations in screen reader behaviour are quite remarkable.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
With a little bit of sunshine and blue sky recently, I’ve been thinking about salads again. Although the evenings are set to get lighter now, there’s still a chill in the air, so this warm potato and bacon salad does the job beautifully.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Some while ago I was asked how screen readers handle disabled and read only form fields. Despite forms being commonplace on most websites, there's remarkably little information available on the subject. It turns out that there's also very little consistency in the way different screen readers behave either.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
CSS Flexbox can create a disconnect between the DOM order and visual presentation of content, causing keyboard navigation to break. For this reason, the CSS Flexible Box Layout module warns against resequencing content logic, but asking authors not to use flexbox in this way seems illogical in itself.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
SVG is often used for data visualisation, but because SVG lacks the semantics to express structures like bar charts, line graphs, and scatter plots, the content is difficult for screen reader users to interpret. The solution is to use the technique for creating accessible SVG tables as your starting point.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
I've been thinking about conversational interfaces for some time, and about the importance of voice quality as a part of user experience.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The case for not using accessibility overlays has been made and endorsed by industry professionals, disability organisations, and people with disabilities. One concern is the privacy of personal data, and in the case of the AccessiBe overlay, it deserves closer scrutiny.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
Online advertising is, in my opinion, intrusive, invasive, and, in the case of accessibility, frequently destructive. Yet since it first emerged in 1994, online advertising has been one of the few ways content creators have had to be compensated for their efforts. Until now.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The aria-label and aria-labelledby attributes do the same thing but in different ways. Sometimes the two attributes are confused and this has unintended results. This post describes the differences between aria-label and aria-labelledby and how to choose the right one.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
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This article was first posted in 2007 on the eAccess blog, now available courtesy of the Internet Archive. Three years later and I still believe that emotion rich images are important to blind people, particularly those who once had sight (and that's most of us). Results from the third WebAIM screen reader survey suggest I'm not alone, so I'm reposting the article here to encourage the debate to continue.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
The accessible SVG line graphs post explains how to use ARIA table semantics to make that form of data visualisation accessible to screen readers. This article uses the same ARIA based approach to make a screen reader accessible SVG flowchart.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age
When a form is used to update information on the page, it can be troublesome for screen reader users. Unless the screen reader is focused on the relevant bit of the page, the update goes by un-noticed. ARIA live regions are a simple way to improve the experience for screen reader users.| Tink - Léonie Watson - On technology, food & life in the digital age