The text-overflow property can be used to show visual indication of truncated text. I’m not a fan, and take every opportunity to discourage its use.
July 5, 2022 | Development
There are only enough hours in the day, but for some there are also only enough spoons. Find out what spoons—or a shortage of them—means in a digital context
April 20, 2022 | Development
SC 1.4.1 Use of Color can sometimes be misused as a tool to enforce underlines on links, but it’s not quite as simple as that. Do you know when it’s a genuine pass/fail?
April 13, 2022 | Development
When do labels fail WCAG? David Swallow highlights scenarios of WCAG label misuse and attempts to bring some clarity to the confusion.
January 6, 2022 | Development
After years of working with various QSR restaurants types, the Vispero team noticed industry-wide themes regarding the customer experience. Upon further review, we highlighted three essential requirements for fast-casual, quick-service…
December 7, 2021 | Development, Kiosk
More than one in twenty people—an estimated 430 million people—experience disabling hearing loss according to the World Health Organization’s 2021 fact sheet on deafness and hearing loss. Some are functionally…
July 7, 2021 | Development
For people working in the field of accessibility, we are very much aware that accessibility benefits everyone, not just people with disabilities. Like Billy Gregory’s widely-shared tweet from 2015 said,…
July 6, 2021 | Development
It’s already been over two years since I joined the W3C’s Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Working Group. Time flying has pretty much been the nature of my involvement with APA,…
June 29, 2021 | Development
On 31st May 2021, nine new WCAG success criteria and supporting documents were put out for wide review resulting in a wide range of comments and issues being raised on…
June 11, 2021 | Development
Having read Steve Faulkner’s post a short while ago about the often-questionable use of roles in HTML when a more suitable native HTML element would be far better, I was…
May 16, 2021 | Development
When testing a website or mobile application’s accessibility, some might say that someone who routinely uses a screen reader would be best placed to eke out issues, right? While it’s…
May 9, 2021 | Development
I am a failed musician. Actually, it’s a bit rich to call myself a ‘musician’ at all, let alone a failed one. No, I’m more of the type who knows…
April 30, 2021 | Development
Accessible pedestrian signals consist of two parts: a visual element and an audible element that makes a “tock” sound. Each part of an accessible pedestrian signal is activated by a…
April 28, 2021 | Development
In the past, the evaluation of children with autism focused on skills the child lacked (in comparison with neurotypical children). Thinking in terms of “deficits” meant that “success” was when…
April 26, 2021 | Development
So many people transitioned from working at the office to working from home during 2020 and 2021, and a large number of them will have attended at least one Zoom…
April 25, 2021 | Development
Makeup/body care packaging has been historically inaccessible for those who are blind or have low vision, but that’s slowly changing. Cleanlogic, a body-care brand, wants to change that. If makeup…
April 23, 2021 | Development
Digital accessibility is a pressing issue for people with disabilities, but by adding an optional auto-captions feature, TikTok has become a more accessible digital platform. This new feature will auto-generate…
April 21, 2021 | Development
Warning: This post contains minor low-grade explicit language. Those easily offended may wish to turn away now. Although, that said, if the word ‘crap’ offends you more than the reason…
