Is making online exams accessible important? Several schools and universities provide online education. In the competitive world online education is most reliable, economical and viable. Making virtual classrooms, education material and assignments accessible is vital for student’s success. Finally the student’s success is measured on the performance in exams. Making those online exams accessible is […]

aria-rowspan property defines the number of rows a cell spanned within a table, grid or a treegrid. Use host attribute equivalent if available. If both the host language equivalent and aria-rowspan property are defined user agents have to pick the value expressed through the host language attribute and expose it to assistive technologies. Content authors […]

aria-rowindex property is used on a table, grid or a treegrid where all the rows are currently not present. aria-rowindex property notifies the index or position of the row in a table or grid or a treegrid with respect to the number of rows available. User agents can calculate the index of the row if […]

Dynamic tables are quite common in modern web. In these dynamic tables, Number of rows and columns depends on the data fetched by the input given by the user or any other parameters that define the table. aria-rowcount (property) will be ideal to use in scenarios where the total number of rows are not available […]

Aria-roledescription property is new in ARIA 1.1 specification. This property allow content author to provide an additional description for the role already available. aria-roledescription property can be provided to the elements that have native markup role or for those elements where role is provided with ARIA specifications. Some screen readers typically localize the name of […]

Aria-placeholder property is new in ARIA 1.1 specifications. This property is used to provide a short hint for text input fields when it does not have any text. In other words the string supplied through aria-placeholder should be available whenever the value property of the text field is empty. The hint provided through this property […]

The aria-keyshortcuts property informs the screen reader user the shortcuts developer implemented to activate or focus an element on the web page or an application. Aria-keyshortcuts is an ARIA 1.1 property. Developers use the accesskey attribute to assign a shortcut for an element on the web page. It is a great idea to implement a […]

aria-errormessage property is used to present the error message to a screen reader user. It uses id value to reference the message container. This is similar to aria-describedby property which references a message from any other container on the page using the id value reference. As per WCAG 2.0 SC 3.3.1 Error Identification, user need […]

Aria-details property identifies the element that provides a detailed explanation of an object. It is an ARIA 1.1 property. When an image or a similar element needs a detailed explanation, something more than what aria-describedby can provide aria-details can be used. The detailed explanation can be a container of text on the same page or […]

aria-colspan property defines the number of columns a cell spanned within a table, grid or a treegrid. Use host attribute equivalent if available. If both the host language equivalent and aria-colspan property are defined user agents have to pick the value expressed through the host language attribute and expose it to assistive technologies. Content authors […]