| Title |
Description |
| ABBR/ACRONYM Tags |
If you use abbreviations or acronyms, you need to use these tags to assist screen readers and search engines to better understand your pages. |
| ACCESSKEY |
The ACCESSKEY attribute can be used to provide hot keys that will take a person to a link. |
| ACCESSKEY to Jump to Content |
The Accesskey is supposed to take the place of a mouse for keyboard only users. However, the way it has been implemented, about all you can do is use the keys to move focus to a link or formfield. Here is a method that lets you move to an anchor inside an H key which will force Jaws to voice the Header text. This is a useful technique when you want to simulate a mouse click. |
| Ajax and Jaws |
What do I need to know to use Ajax with the Jaws Screen Reader? |
| ARIA Required State |
Using the ARIA REQUIRED STATE to Create Accessible Form Fields? |
| Distinct Link Text for Images. |
Using the ALT attribute to create distinct links from images. |
| Dynamic Select Lists |
Using a Select List to change Dynamic Content on a page. |
| FIELDSET & LEGEND Tags |
The FIELDSET tag is used to group similar form controls together. And the LEGEND is then spoken as a prefix to each form field along with it's LABEL. This is useful when you have several fields with the same name but different meanings. Like a Billing First Name vs. a Shipping First Name. Both have First Name as the LABEL. |
| FORM Accessiblity |
Forms require LABELs and some other special coding. |
| Hiding Text Off the Screen |
Use this CSS technique to make links distinct and or hide H tags or LABEL tags off the screen out of sight of the visual user, but where Jaws screen reader can find them and read them. |
| Hiding Flash from a Screen Reader |
There are times when it is best to hide a flash movie from a screen reader. |
| H Tags |
H tags are vital to navigation for the screen reader user. Your pages MUST have h tags. They take the place of skip navigation. |
| HTML TABLE Tags |
Data tables need some special markup to make them accessible. |
| Image Maps |
How to markup an image map. |
| Link Text |
Understanding how Jaws read link text. |
| Meaningful Alternative Text for Images |
What makes a good ALT tag? |
| Moving Focus |
Dynamic content is easy for a visual user to see when it has changed; but how does a screen reader user know you have used Ajax to dynamically change the content on the page? We do this by moving focus to the newly created content using Javascript focus(). |
| Moving Focus II |
More on moving focus. |
| onClick vs onKeyPress |
When to use onClick vs onKeyPress? |
| Screen Reader Detection Using Flash |
There are times when you may want to switch to a alternative view if a screen reader is beign used. |
| Skip Nav Link |
How to provide a visually hidden skip nav that is accessible to Screen Readers, magnifiers, and keyboard only users. |
| Taborder & TABINDEX |
It is important that the tab order be logical. Using TABINDEX is not always the best method to fix the order, and generally causes more problems then it's worth. |
| Treeview |
This presents several ways to create a Treeview, including a Web2.0 example that has been implemented in Firefox and Jaws. It allows the keyboard user to traverse the tree using standard MS keys like left and right arrows. |
