Dispatches From The Internets

Lots of good information in this piece, but here’s the key takeaway:

The simplest solution is to show a menu via click. Click works when the user taps, when the user clicks with the mouse, and when the user tabs via keyboard and presses enter.

Folks on the Chakra team at Microsoft have updated node.js to enable users to swap in their open source ChakraCore JavaScript engine for the default V8 JavaScript engine from Google. This is pretty big huge.

Not at all surprising…

Patagonia, Ace Hardware, Aeropostale, Bed Bath & Beyond and Estee Lauder are the most recent companies sued by blind plaintiffs, alleging that the retailers’ websites are not accessible to the blind as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

A good piece on why accessibility matters and steps JPMorgan Chase is taking to incorporate it in everything they do.

An excellent primer on accessibility from Charles McQuilkin.

This is an interesting discovery:

VoiceOver uses borders as a criteria to determine if a table is a data table or not.

A few simple, practical examples of how to make your interfaces more accessible, by Eric Eggert.