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Alternative text methods

Posted on: 9 April 2025 Last updated on: 9 April 2025 Written by: Nostromo Comments: 0
Alternative text for imagesTopic here is the mechanics of adding alternative text for images. If images convey information to users, this must also be conveyed through text. How this achieved depends on how the image content is brought into the…
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List Live Regions

Posted on: 1 November 2023 Last updated on: 1 November 2023 Written by: Nostromo Comments: 0
Don’t want to read all the below? Here’s the bookmarklet: List live regions When using ARIA live regions, it is best practise to ensure the live region container is present on page load. Content can be dynamically added as it’s…
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Reading Roundup 19/02/2021

Posted on: 19 February 2021 Last updated on: 19 February 2021 Written by: Nostromo Comments: 0
Interesting reading from around the web on accessibility, development, and anything else that catches my eye.
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Total Immersion Keyboard Testing

Posted on: 20 January 2021 Last updated on: 1 November 2023 Written by: Nostromo Comments: 2
Keyboard testing is a critical aspect of an accessibility review. All functionality on a site should be available via the keyboard, which opens access to a wide range of assistive technologies. Testing with the keyboard is usually one of the…
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NVDA Testing Tips

Posted on: 3 January 2021 Last updated on: 3 January 2021 Written by: Nostromo Comments: 0
Here’s a collection of tips for testing using the NVDA screen reader. I’ll add to this as time goes on. Speech display verbosity NVD has a speech viewer tool; this displays the text spoken by NVDA, including both onscreen text…
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New Year, new site

Posted on: 2 January 2021 Last updated on: 2 January 2021 Written by: Nostromo Comments: 0
I have setup a blog. Yay! I’ve created my own, very minimal, WordPress theme using the fabulous underscores.me theme starter. Banner image was put together in Illustrator and is embedded as an SVG. It’s a little too big (29kb) to…
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I’m an NVDA Certified Expert!

Posted on: 1 December 2019 Last updated on: 1 November 2023 Written by: Nostromo Comments: 0
In November 2019, I passed the NVDA certified expert exam. I wanted to take the exam to help solidify my learning and understanding. I’ve used NVDA for a while in my day to day accessibility testing, so had a working…
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Alternative text methods

Alternative text for imagesTopic here is the mechanics of adding alternative text for images. If images convey information to users, this must also be conveyed through text. How this achieved depends on how the image content is brought into the…
Continue reading “Alternative text methods”…

List Live Regions

Don’t want to read all the below? Here’s the bookmarklet: List live regions When using ARIA live regions, it is best practise to ensure the live region container is present on page load. Content can be dynamically added as it’s…
Continue reading “List Live Regions”…

Reading Roundup 19/02/2021

Interesting reading from around the web on accessibility, development, and anything else that catches my eye.
Continue reading “Reading Roundup 19/02/2021”…

Total Immersion Keyboard Testing

Keyboard testing is a critical aspect of an accessibility review. All functionality on a site should be available via the keyboard, which opens access to a wide range of assistive technologies. Testing with the keyboard is usually one of the…
Continue reading “Total Immersion Keyboard Testing”…

NVDA Testing Tips

Here’s a collection of tips for testing using the NVDA screen reader. I’ll add to this as time goes on. Speech display verbosity NVD has a speech viewer tool; this displays the text spoken by NVDA, including both onscreen text…
Continue reading “NVDA Testing Tips”…

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