Sarah Higley

Over the past seven (?!)

For anyone who has not found themselves wading waist-deep through the nigh-unintelligible morass of accessible combobox patterns, aria-activedescendant might seem like yet another esoteric line item in the ARIA spec, or might be wholly unfamiliar.

This is a guide for anyone who, like me, is casting about for alternatives to Twitter and would like an absolute minimum, bare-bones walkthrough for getting started with Mastodon.

This is part 2 in a series about ARIA grids (not at all related to CSS grids 🙃) In the first post of this grids series, I wrote that the defining feature of grids and tables is that they present two-dimensional relationships in a set of data.

In my day-to-day work, I find myself talking to a lot of people who have a lot of accessibility problems with different tables and grids.

Windows High Contrast Mode behavior can be a bit of a surprise if you haven't already spent time studying its ways.

Often when we talk about accessibility problems, we end up talking about a number of different errors that all boil down to a missing accessible name: form fields without labels, images without alts, icon buttons without readable text, and many more.

The most difficult challenges in programming are: Debating framework choices with a dogmatic fan, and Naming things There is seemingly no solution for the first problem; you must accept it, adopt a zen-like calm when faced with invocations of bundle sizes…

Sometimes after dabbling in gateway ARIA semantics like aria-current, landmark roles, and link-button hybrids, a budding accessibility practitioner might find themselves experimenting with more serious roles like menu, listbox, or even treegrid.

I've been thinking, testing, and talking about custom select components and comboboxes a lot over the past year, and finally condensed all of it into a two-part series of articles written for 24 Accessibility.

In an effort to convince everyone (who reads these blog posts) that I don't only obsess over tooltips, let's talk about another seemingly simple concept and make it unexpectedly complex.

Earlier this week when filling out an expense report -- a tedious chore that nearly everyone wishes would be over roughly five minutes before starting -- I got about halfway through before inadvertently deleting all my progress and forcing myself to start…

TL;DR recommendation: Narrow down your definition of "tooltip," and jump to the last section.