iframes Web Accessibility for Screen Readers
Website accessibility and usability go hand-in-hand. Besides being the right thing to do, it is a legal requirement for most government websites to ensure web accessibility for everyone regardless of disability. Ensuring website usability is just as important. If your website applications don't work or material is not interesting, informative or easily accessible on mobile devices as well as to visitors with disabilities, you will lose your audience quickly. Google's NewsShow is making it possible to see headlines and previews of Google News Search results that you have pre-selected for your website audience. All of this using the web technology: iframes.
WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind) has a great article on how to make iframes accessible. The main point here is that iframes are becoming more popular in website development for content management and it is necessary to ensure that website accessibility guidelines are followed. There are ways to ensure that these news modules are accessible to all. "Links within the iframe element are accessible via the keyboard as if the content were within the web page containing the iframe."--WebAIM.
Read more at WebAIM: http://www.webaim.org/techniques/frames/#iframe
Usability: IE8 and iframes (Google News)
This brief introductory information is part of a bigger problem that I was having with Google news suddenly not being displayed in Internet Explorer 8. If you are using Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) and your NewsShow suddenly stopped working, the problem is not the 'iframe' as first expected. The problem is how the rules changed and what worked previously does not work any longer.
If you are interested in finding out more and/or how I came to resolve a problem with IE8 and iframes, please read the entire article posted here at SimplyRaydeen.com.
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