Screen readers and CSS

As I have noted in a couple of blog posts recently, there are some cases when CSS has quite unexpected results in screen readers (or the way web browsers create the accessibility information they hand over to screen readers). If you haven’t read them, the posts are Screen readers, list items and list-style:none and Using display:table has semantic effects in some screen readers.

Here are a few examples:

  • Using display:table on non-table elements to get the visual layout characteristics of an HTML table without actually using one may cause screen readers to act as if there was a real table
  • Using display:block or float on table-related elements may cause screen readers to treat the table as a layout table and ignore its semantics or report an incorrect data structure
  • Using list-style:none to visually remove bullets or numbers from list items may cause screen readers to ignore them too, basically treating list items as paragraphs of text

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Video Inspiration #44

Video Inspiration is a weekly(ish) post where we either feature a specific artist or show a sort of “best of” list of videos we’ve discovered during the week. Everything here may not be brand new, but we felt it worth sharing with the community. If you have good finds that you’d like to share, please feel free to send your links to nathan@abduzeedo.com with “video inspiration” in the subject line.

This week I’m taking a slightly different approach to Video Inspiration. The first three videos were chosen because they’re interesting and fun techniques that might spark some ideas. The last two videos were chosen almost entirely because of their thought content. I hope you can make time today to watch them. Enjoy.

The Keyring Stunt Driver from Ryan Kothe on Vimeo.

What goes up from Lacey on Vimeo.

keep drawing from studio shelter on Vimeo.

Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors from Ben Mendelsohn on Vimeo.

Patrician McCarthy: What’s Your Innate Gift? from 99% on Vimeo.

About the author

Hi, my name is Nathan Weller. I’m a Columbus Ohio based artist, blogger and freelance consultant. I manage business development here at Abduzeedo. If you’d like to partner or advertise with us, email me at nathan[@]abduzeedo.com. I also write for some other cool blogs and post everything I write on twitter. If I’m not working then I’m either tinkering around with personal projects or posting cool stuff as I find it on my Tumblr. If you’re passionate about art or even an artist yourself, I’d love to connect and learn about what you do 🙂

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