Too Much Accessibility

Hope­fully, any­one sub­scribed to this blog also fol­lows 456 Berea Street. If not, you missed a great post from Roger Johans­son titled Over­do­ing Acces­si­bil­ity. Go read the arti­cle and then sub­scribe to his feed.

Mike Cherim tack­led the same sub­ject awhile back on Avoid­ing Extreme Acces­si­bil­ity.

Bim Egan ran a whole series of arti­cles titled Too much acces­si­bil­ity — TITLE attrib­utes.

The two attrib­utes that were on all three lists were tabindex and accesskeys. The les­son? Take the time to under­stand your users, then eval­u­ate the work that you are doing to make sure it is actu­ally help­ing those you are try­ing to help.