Steve Faulkner

Steve was the Chief Accessibility Officer at TPGi before he left in October 2023. He joined TPGi in 2006 and was previously a Senior Web Accessibility Consultant at vision australia. Steve is a member of several groups, including the W3C Web Platforms Working Group and the W3C ARIA Working Group. He is an editor of several specifications at the W3C including ARIA in HTML and HTML Accessibility API Mappings 1.0. He also develops and maintains HTML5accessibility and the JAWS bug tracker/standards support.

Social Accessibility – Threes a Crowd?

I started to write a post about the new social accessibility tools/services that have been announced in the last week or so: IBM Social Accessibility Project and Webvisum.

July 18, 2008Development
Circumventing Hegemony in the HTML WG

Raising Issues In order to raise an issue or proposal in regards to the HTML5 specification you do not have to be a member of the W3C HTML Working Group…

July 4, 2008Development
Sucking on WCAG 2.0

While at @media I had the opportunity to meet up with Lachlan Hunt, who works at Opera and is a fellow W3C HTML5 working group member. He did a short…

June 6, 2008Development
WAI-ARIA, it’s Easy – @media 2008

Last Friday I had the pleasure of presenting at @media 2008 on WAI-ARIA, the Web Accessibility Initiative Accessible Rich Internet Applications specification. The slides from the presentation WAI-ARIA It’s Easy…

June 4, 2008Development
Making Twitter Tweet – Using the TPGi Notifier

As part of my presentation at the Accessibility 2.0 Conference I demonstrated a preferences module conceived by Hans Hillen, Gez Lemon and I, as a proof of concept(s) for ways…

May 9, 2008Development
HTML5 and alt: The editors new clothes

The HTML5 editor has recently stated in his defence of the alt being optional: “We truly do believe in research, hard data, and analysis, rather than hypotheticals; and we truly…

May 1, 2008Development
Developer Beware: Using Flash to Detect Screen Readers

The facility to detect some Assistive Technology by using Flash has been around since ActionScript 1.0 and Flash Player 6. The method has usually been referred to as a way…

April 28, 2008Development
Advisory Committee Presents Report on Updated 508 Standards

On April 3, the Telecommunications and Electronic and Information Technology Advisory Committee (TEITAC) presented its report to the Access Board on updating accessibility criteria for information and communication technologies.

April 8, 2008Development
ARIA Toggle Button and Tri-state Checkbox examples

It is an exciting time for proponents of WAI-ARIA (Web Accessibility Initiative – Accessible Rich Internet Applications). With support introduced in IE 8 (beta), better support in Firefox 3, planned…

April 1, 2008Development
Roger Hudson on the evolving web and Webstock interviews

Roger Hudson a friend and esteemed colleague, has taken time to write a thought provoking essay: The Evolving Web – A Pace Layering view of the development of the Web…

March 30, 2008Development
How JAWS reads text

Making public statements based on limited knowledge of an assistive technology and with little understanding of how it is used, can lead to incorrect conclusions and poor implementations.

March 27, 2008Development
Web Accessibility Toolbar 2.0 Chinese language version

I am pleased to announce the release of the Traditional Chinese language version of the WAT 2.0 (including a Traditional Chinese version of the Color Contrast Analyser 2.0) The software…

March 20, 2008Development
Applying WAI-ARIA to Yahoo! Mail

At CSUN 2008, Hans Hillen from TPGi and Victor Tsarin from Yahoo! presented A case study on applying WAI-ARIA to the new Yahoo! mail rich internet application.

March 18, 2008Development
IE 8: alt change and longdesc weirdness

Update for IE 8b2 I have updated the results for IE8 b2, and included tests for input type=”image” Tests and results for HTML 4.01 transitional. Tests and results for HTML…

March 9, 2008Development
IE 8 beta with WAI ARIA SUPPORT!

This is amazing news in terms of WAI ARIA implementation ! The W3C defines ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) as a syntax for making dynamic Web content and custom UI…

March 5, 2008Development
Screen Readers lack emphasis

In a recent thread on the Web Standards Group mailing list, the question arose about whether Screen Readers support semantic HTML elements such as strong and em. The short answer…

February 28, 2008Development
alt in HTML5 – Moving Forward

As a result of some sage advice from Jason White (a W3C veteran), amongst others. Myself, Laura Carlson and Josh O Connor have started to attend the HTML WG weekly…

February 22, 2008Development
The title attribute – what is it good for? (resurrected)

While working at vision australia I presented at Web Essentials 05 on the HTML title attribute, which lead to a right royal fisking by Joe Clark. I also conducted research…

February 12, 2008Development

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Steve Faulkner

Social Accessibility – Threes a Crowd?

Circumventing Hegemony in the HTML WG

Sucking on WCAG 2.0

WAI-ARIA, it’s Easy – @media 2008

Making Twitter Tweet – Using the TPGi Notifier

HTML5 and alt: The editors new clothes

Developer Beware: Using Flash to Detect Screen Readers

Advisory Committee Presents Report on Updated 508 Standards

ARIA Toggle Button and Tri-state Checkbox examples

Roger Hudson on the evolving web and Webstock interviews

How JAWS reads text

Web Accessibility Toolbar 2.0 Chinese language version

Applying WAI-ARIA to Yahoo! Mail

IE 8: alt change and longdesc weirdness

IE 8 beta with WAI ARIA SUPPORT!

Screen Readers lack emphasis

alt in HTML5 – Moving Forward

The title attribute – what is it good for? (resurrected)