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Overcoming Objections to Accessibility
Experience over the years has taught me that salesmanship often comes down to nothing more than overcoming objections. The prospective customer states they can’t afford it; the salesman speaks the virtues of easy financing. The prospective customer claims they have no room for it; the salesman dons work clothes and expresses a willingness to make room. Once the prospective customer has had all of his or her objections swatted down like sluggish fall flies, he or she will often sign on the dotted line. This is fact. Now let’s look at how this applies to web accessibility.
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Keyboard-Friendly Link Focus
After more than a year of judging web sites, we have a good idea of what developers tend to overlook. There are a few things we see over and over again, but the one oversight we see most often is a lack of link focus. It’s a small thing, really, but to anyone navigating a site by keyboard, a lack of link focus can seriously affect the usability. Correcting this oversight can be addressed in a matter of minutes, and there’s really no excuse for not doing it. It all boils down to thinking about it, then doing it. We can’t make you think about it, but we can tell you how to do it.
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Semantics — Why Bother?
A great deal has been written about semantic markup and its importance. Some of this material has been written by purists who defend semantics because they like the logic and structure that semantic markup can convey. That’s all very well and good, but what does semantic markup mean? And what practical usage does it have?
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Making a Font Selector
We recently made a font selector for this site to offer visitors the option of changing the type-face to something they’re more comfortable with. This font selector was made with a PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) script which, unlike JavaScript, is a server-side utility meaning users don’t need to have any special add-ons or plugins for their browser to use it. We figured you might like to know how we made it in case you want to employ such a thing on your site.
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