Category Archives: Accessibility

Fangs: the Screen Reader Emulator for Firefox

I want to add another tool to Mark’s post on accessibility.
Fangs is a Firefox extension that emulates the output of a screen reader in plain text.
Why would you want to use this instead of an actual screen reader?
Screen readers by their very nature are linear. Testing sites with lots of content would take ages; you [...]

Open Up, Be Accessible…

A client recently asked about “accessibility” and where we stood on compliance. This is not a question I hear very often, and it made me realize how much of an afterthought accessibility is for most designers and developers. Even though it has been a topic of discussion for years, accessibility still sits ignored at the [...]