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.

High Contrast Proof CSS Sprites

CSS sprites are a useful method to display graphics while preserving bandwith and improving page rendering times. One of the problems with CSS sprites when it comes to their accessibility…

January 25, 2010Development
alt and title content display in popular browsers

Recently Roger Johansson wrote a post about Safari, WebKit and alt text for missing images. In which he talks about how Webkit based browsers do not always display alt attribute…

January 5, 2010Development
Free Online Seminar: Accessible Content Workflow with Adobe InDesign CS4 and Acrobat 9

TPG’s Charlie Pike in conjunction with Adobe is presenting a free online seminar. This seminar will concentrate on Accessible Content Workflow with Adobe InDesign CS4 and Adobe Acrobat 9.

October 16, 2009Development
ARIA role support: how the Windows browsers stack up – Update

Testing of the latest builds of the major Windows browsers indicates Google Chrome’s ARIA role support improving, 18 of 47 roles are now correctly mapped to MSAA roles. There has…

October 2, 2009Development
TPGi and Riverdocs Announce Accessibility Services for Legacy PDF Documents

Nashua, NH – Sep. 28, 2009 – TPGi (TPG), pioneers in the field of accessible interface design, and Riverdocs, a leading document conversion solutions provider, today announced a partnership that…

September 28, 2009Development
Apple Webkit Gets Serious About WAI-ARIA (on Mac)

A check of the support for WAI-ARIA roles in the latest Webkit Nightly builds, reveals a major improvement for WAI-ARIA role support on the Mac version of Webkit (an open…

September 28, 2009Development
Google Chrome Frame – accessibility black hole

See update 07/2012: Google Chrome accessibility update Google have released Chrome Frame a plugin-in for Internet Explorer “that seamlessly brings Google Chrome’s open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to…

September 23, 2009Development
Accessible drag and drop using WAI-ARIA now in French

Recently Gez Lemon of TPGi wrote an article for the Opera Developer Network on Accessible drag and drop using WAI-ARIA. His colleague Cedric Trevisan has translated Gez’s article into French.

July 27, 2009Development
WAI-ARIA Implementation in JavaScript UI Libraries – updated

A number of popular Javascript UI Libraries are in the process of adding WAI-ARIA support to their widgets and components. What is the current status and future plans for WAI-ARIA…

July 13, 2009Development
PDF Accessibility Webinar

PDF & WCAG 2.0 Charlie Pike from TPGi is presenting a PDF Accessibility Webinar in conjunction with Adobe Acrobat User Group. It’s free to attend, pre-registration required. Wednesday, June 17…

June 17, 2009Development
ARIA Role Support in Safari 4.0

Victor Tsarin asked on Twitter Safari4 final came out but I don’t see any #ARIA improvements. Do you? The Safari 4 New features page talks about ARIA support Safari supports…

June 11, 2009Development
Notes on accessibility of text replacement using HTML5 canvas

Roger Johannson recently blogged on issues with Cufon Accessibility in relation to Assistive Technology, which is well worth a read. It prompted me to do a little testing:

June 9, 2009Development
Thinking About HTML 5 canvas Accessibility

The canvas element is a new element of the ‘in progress’ HTML 5 specification, it provides the ability to create dynamically generated graphics in HTML in conjunction with JavaScript. It…

June 8, 2009Development
Google Chrome 2.0 Accessibility Improvements?

When Google first released Chrome back in September 2008, I carried out a quick and dirty accessibility analysis of it. With the release of Google chrome 2.0 I though it…

June 1, 2009Development
Comparison of ARIA roles exposed via MSAA and UI Automation in IE8

The Microsoft MSAA API cannot provide mapping for all ARIA roles as it does not have defined roles and properties for all those defined by The ARIA specification, the Microsoft…

May 26, 2009Development
AOL/TopCoder Accessibility Developer Competition

AOL/TopCoder® Accessibility Developer Competition to Culminate at 2009 TopCoder Open. Winning Accessibility Application of AOL/TopCoder Sensations Developer Challenge to be Announced June 1-4, 2009 – Las Vegas, NV

May 20, 2009Development
Flash & WCAG 2.0 Webinar

Flash & WCAG 2.0 The recording, transcript, and slides from the second of the Flash , PDF & WCAG 2.0 webinars, presented by TPGi in conjunction with Adobe, is now…

April 3, 2009Development
Adobe PDF & WCAG 2.0 Webinar

PDF & WCAG 2.0 The recording, transcript, and slides from the PDF & WCAG 2.0 webinars presented by TPGi in conjunction with Adobe, is now available: Captioned streaming media recording…

March 26, 2009Development

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Steve Faulkner

High Contrast Proof CSS Sprites

alt and title content display in popular browsers

Free Online Seminar: Accessible Content Workflow with Adobe InDesign CS4 and Acrobat 9

ARIA role support: how the Windows browsers stack up – Update

TPGi and Riverdocs Announce Accessibility Services for Legacy PDF Documents

Apple Webkit Gets Serious About WAI-ARIA (on Mac)

Google Chrome Frame – accessibility black hole

Accessible drag and drop using WAI-ARIA now in French

WAI-ARIA Implementation in JavaScript UI Libraries – updated

PDF Accessibility Webinar

ARIA Role Support in Safari 4.0

Notes on accessibility of text replacement using HTML5 canvas

Thinking About HTML 5 canvas Accessibility

Google Chrome 2.0 Accessibility Improvements?

Comparison of ARIA roles exposed via MSAA and UI Automation in IE8

AOL/TopCoder Accessibility Developer Competition

Flash & WCAG 2.0 Webinar

Adobe PDF & WCAG 2.0 Webinar