Able Player 4.8.0 is now available! All the details about what’s changed in this release are available in my previous post: the Release Candidate announcement and call for translators. This is an exciting release for a few reasons: but most importantly, it’s my first steps towards removing the jQuery dependency. jQuery is deeply built into Able Player, so removing that is going to take time – but reducing the dependency so it only requires the slim build of Able Player […]
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Why WordPress Themes Require Underlines on Links
Jeff Chandler posted a link in the Post Status Slack yesterday leading to an article complaining about the underlined link requirement for WordPress themes. It’s an interesting read, and it makes some good points about what kinds of link decorations can pass the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and be fundamentally more interesting than an underline. If you read Nick Hamze’s article, I recommend doing it on a mobile device; the readability on desktop is more than a little bit iffy. […]
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Accessibility Show number eight was a fun one. For most shows, I’ve searched out specific sites that demonstrate particular problems so that we can demonstrate different ways that problem shows up in real sites. For this one, however, I wanted to show something else, as well: how ubiquitous keyboard accessibility problems really are. So instead of carefully pre-selecting sites, I just grabbed the first ones in the list as I saw it at the time. It would have been nice […]
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The seventh episode of The Accessibility Show is now out! This one was an interesting change of pace. I was asked to take a look at the site for another of Nathan’s podcasts: The No Script Show, the brain child of David Waumsley. The premise for the No Script Show is fundamentally interesting to me. The show is about stripping away the baggage of page and site builders and working on the fundamentals of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and CSS […]
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After taking over Able Player, I received feedback from various sources about the kinds of problems people are having with the accessible media player. While there are miscellaneous observations of bugs and support gaps, the majority of comments were actually about using the player. These aren’t really issues with the JavaScript package itself; they’re about implementation. The Drupal plugin already interfaces with Drupal’s media library. But the WordPress plugin was considerably less powerful – it could only implement Able Player […]
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