A couple of days ago I released RAAKT - The Ruby Accessibility Analysis Kit gem (I know, it really needs a better name). RAAKT is a gem that can be used independently of Rails and my plan was to make a Rails plugin that would add a custom assert method that did the check. It turns out that it only takes five lines of code so there is no need for a plugin. So let’s see how you can integrate accessibility checks into your current Rails application.
Read more about Automated Accessibility Tests with RAAKT in Ruby on Rails
Almost a year ago there was a discussion about accessible error messages in the WebAIM forums. Based on that discussion I take a look at how you can create accessible (and usable) error messages for your web applications.
In this article we take a look at the grouped table. You may have seen examples of grouped table data in other applications such as Microsoft Outlook or the file explorer in your operating system. Some of you semantics freaks would argue that presenting data this way is not possible as a grouped table does not exist in html. We’ll see about that.