Flex Layout Fail: Fixing Firefox’s Keyboard Accessibility Bug With The CSS order Property

January 28th, 2017 by zoltan · 2 Comments

Firefox, unlike every other browser on the planet, changes the way that keyboard navigation works in designs that use the CSS order property. Since a lot of developers use flexbox, this can create a lot of cross-browser accessibility issues. This article shows a fix for this problem using a small amount of Javascript.

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Tags: accessibility · CSS · flex-layout · order · Uncategorized

Implementing an Accessible Skip Navigation Link Requires More Thought Than You’d Think

December 15th, 2016 by zoltan · No Comments

One of the most common and straightforward accessible features of a web site is the “skip navigation” link. These links are intended to make it easier for users with screen readers to skip all the links in a webpage’s header navigation in order to read the content on the rest of the page. However, many developers don’t know all the tricks that are needed to use in order to implement one correctly. This article will go into this in depth.

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Tags: accessibility