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.
Dispatches From The Internets
Submitting a Pull Request to Node.js with ChakraCore
Lawsuits Rise: Blind Plaintiffs Sue Additional Retailers for Website Accessibility/ADA Claims
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).
How Creating Accessibility For Everyone Benefits Us All
A good piece on why accessibility matters and steps JPMorgan Chase is taking to incorporate it in everything they do.
The value of accessibility
An excellent primer on accessibility from Charles McQuilkin.
SVG A11y test cases
Test cases for SVG accessibility, with and without ARIA.
A11y: Tables and Borders
This is an interesting discovery:
VoiceOver uses borders as a criteria to determine if a table is a data table or not.
Woe-ARIA: The Surprisingly but Ridiculously Complicated World of aria-label/ledby
An in-depth examination of aria-label and aria-labelledby.
The Accessibility Mindset
A few simple, practical examples of how to make your interfaces more accessible, by Eric Eggert.
On Accessibility and the Lack of Proper HTML
Great minds think alike… I wrote at length about inherent semantics vs. fully-customized divs and the number of dependencies that come with the latter in the second edition of Adaptive Web Design.
WHATWG: Compatibility Standard
A list of things browsers must implement to ensure poorly-coded sites work. That this is needed deeply saddens me.