Category Archives: Web Standards

How to Hide “Required” from Visual Users, but Make it Available for All Others

Posted on August 27, 2008 by John F Croston III

How do most people usually designate that a field is “Required” in a web FORM? I would think that it is with an asterisk (*) after the actual INPUT field and it is sometimes made “bold” and “RED”. There are … Continue reading →

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How to Set Up and Use Access Keys

Posted on August 4, 2008 by John F Croston III

Access keys allow people to use the keyboard instead of the mouse to perform certain functions. Mostly to move from page to page or a different section of the current pages content. By using web standards you can improve peoples … Continue reading →

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Are You Using Skip Navigation?

Posted on February 24, 2008 by John F Croston III

Skip navigation is a great thing to have on your website for a lot of reasons. Here is a list of just a few of them the greatest ones being the first two, that they make websites more accessible to … Continue reading →

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“Say-Instead” Part of CSS3

Posted on February 18, 2008 by John F Croston III

Again while in Austin, Texas, I was talking with Charles L. Chen about his CLiCk Speak Firefox extension and he showed me that by using the new CSS3 property called “say-instead“, which is used to allow screen readers to pronounce … Continue reading →

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Further Explanation of My Accessibility Presentation

Posted on January 25, 2008 by John F Croston III

Over the next few weeks YEARS, I will post in more detail different sections of my “Is Your Website Accessible” presentation. Two of the topics I have already covered on my blog are: Use of UL or OL in HTML … Continue reading →

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