Alexander Surkov

web, a11y, technologies, shaping the future

Canada

I am a software engineer passionate about the web, open source and accessibility. I love math (I hold a PhD in differential equations) and nature (paddling Ontario on a canoe is my favorite), and many many other things.

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Mar 1, 2017

2nd grade math

There’s old soviet animation “38 parrots”. The plot of the movie was the animals were measuring a boa, and they concluded that the boa is longer in pa

Nov 18, 2014

Accessibility goes into DOM

PWFG group suggested two new methods for DOM Element interface. These methods reflect role and name accessibility concepts, and corresponding methods

Nov 5, 2014

Yandex.People

This might be a little bit strange post. It’s not about the web, it’s about people working at Yandex. Yandex is a largest IT company in Russia (some a

Jun 19, 2014

Peculiarities of standardization

Sometimes standardization might have amusing consequences.Some preliminary. Say the web author need to place an image for pure design purposes, it cou

Jan 20, 2014

Personalized web for the assistive technology

Sometimes the web authors provide a different content for screen readers than they do that for sighted users. That could be an additional content like

Jan 13, 2014

Accessible Mozilla: tech overview of Firefox 26 and Firefox 27

Here’s a list of accessibility improvements for assistive technology in Firefox 26 (release) and Firefox 27 (beta).HTMLHTML label gets a label accessi

Nov 5, 2013

IAccessible2 relation API

Before IAccessible2 Mozilla practiced all manner of extensions of MSAA. I don’t mean I exalt the forethought of MSAA API, I’d rather say this is an e

Oct 29, 2013

MathML accessibility APIs

Browsers traditionally overlook MathML accessibility besides MathML implementation itself by some of them. Because of that there is a bunch of 3d part

Sep 5, 2013

Accessible Mozilla: Tech overview of Firefox 25

ARIA* We don’t map aria-atomic:false to accessibility API anymore (see bug). UAIG is flexible on this and allows a fork in implementation: either igno

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Aug 6, 2020

right, might be not easy one though, here is the issue github.com/w3c/html-aam/i…

Aug 6, 2020

HTML:inert was landed under a flag in Firefox 81 (bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?i…) a week ago. There are a few issues to sort...

Jul 31, 2020

That complicates browser implementation indeed, now aria-hidden=”true” is similar to dispaly:none CSS style, and has nice and performant implementation. Do...

May 4, 2020

I like #Chromium unit c++ testing for #a11y ( https://source.chromium.org/search?q=unittest.cc%20path:accessibility&sq= …), something that #Firefox a11y never had, I suppose many problems...

May 4, 2020

I like #Chromium unit c++ testing for #a11y (source.chromium.org/search?q=unitt…), something that #Firefox a11y never had, I suppose many problems could...

Apr 23, 2020

Haha :) Sorry, didn’t provide any links. Here’s the spec w3c.github.io/aria/#idl-inte…. It’s all about making ARIA attributes appear on DOM...

Feb 27, 2020

I thought #firefox has highly complicated #accname computation code until got closer to #chromium :)

Feb 27, 2020

I thought #firefox has highly complicated #accname computation code until got closer to #chromium :)

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Jan 14, 2021

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2nd grade math

Accessibility goes into DOM

Yandex.People

Peculiarities of standardization

Personalized web for the assistive technology

Accessible Mozilla: tech overview of Firefox 26 and Firefox 27

IAccessible2 relation API

MathML accessibility APIs

Accessible Mozilla: Tech overview of Firefox 25

Tweets

right, might be not easy one though, here is the issue github.com/w3c/html-aam/i…

HTML:inert was landed under a flag in Firefox 81 (bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?i…) a week ago. There are a few issues to sort...

HTML:inert is implemented in Firefox 81 under a flag, the joint effort of Mozilla and Igalia engineers. Time to bring...

HTML:inert is implemented in Firefox 81 under a flag, the joint effort of Mozilla and Igalia engineers. Time to bring...

Ok, I see, I commented on the issue here github.com/w3c/aria/issue…

apparently dialog is the one example of nested aria-hidden (from github.com/w3c/aria/issue…)

That complicates browser implementation indeed, now aria-hidden=”true” is similar to dispaly:none CSS style, and has nice and performant implementation. Do...

I like #Chromium unit c++ testing for #a11y ( https://source.chromium.org/search?q=unittest.cc%20path:accessibility&sq= …), something that #Firefox a11y never had, I suppose many problems...

I like #Chromium unit c++ testing for #a11y (source.chromium.org/search?q=unitt…), something that #Firefox a11y never had, I suppose many problems could...

Haha :) Sorry, didn’t provide any links. Here’s the spec w3c.github.io/aria/#idl-inte…. It’s all about making ARIA attributes appear on DOM...

I thought #firefox has highly complicated #accname computation code until got closer to #chromium :)

I thought #firefox has highly complicated #accname computation code until got closer to #chromium :)

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[Chromium] ax_dump_tree tool: support --active-tab tree selector on linux Bug: 1160279 Change-Id: I90c4da62...

[Chromium] a11y inspect reorg: expose LocalPosition attribute in dump trees generated by tests or by ax_dump...

[Chromium] ax_dump_tree tool: support browser selectors on linux Support --chrome/--chromium/--firefox sele...

[Chromium] a11y inspect: integrate dumpacc scripting into testsuite Allow scripts to be used from accessibi...

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