Best Practices for MFA input

A six-digit verification code should be easy to enter. Yet many multifactor authentication (MFA) interfaces turn that simple task into six separate form fields, each with its own label, focus behavior, and editing rules. Those individual boxes may look tidy, but they can complicate keyboard navigation, screen reader use, pasting, and autofill. The strongest default […]

Karl Groves - 28/10/2026

Every accessibility program eventually asks the same question. We run automated scans every week, and we commission a manual audit once or twice a year. Is there any relationship between the two? If the scan finds 400 issues on one site and 40 on another, does that tell us anything about what the human auditor […]

Karl Groves - 28/10/2026

If your automated accessibility tests pass but a disabled person can’t complete a purchase, what have you actually tested? You’ve tested whatever rules the tool applies to whatever content you gave it. That information has value, but somewhere along the way a lot of teams have become comfortable treating it as evidence that the feature […]

Karl Groves - 15/09/2026

Anyone who performs accessibility audits eventually gets asked the same question: How many pages should we test? There is no especially satisfying answer to this question. Obviously, testing every page is preferable when that is practical. For a sufficiently small website or application it may be possible to do exactly that. It does not take […]

Karl Groves - 06/09/2026

Comments on the current exploratory WCAG 3 conformance proposal and the Working Group’s related Conformance issue record. AFixt appreciates the substantial effort the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has invested in developing WCAG 3 and, in particular, in reconsidering limitations that have become apparent through more than two-and-a-half decades of experience with WCAG 1 and WCAG […]

Karl Groves - 19/08/2026

A few years ago, I gave a presentation titled So You Want an Accessibility Score? about the problems associated with attempts to quantify accessibility into a single numerical score. The topic was not particularly new then, and it certainly isn’t new now. Organizations want accessibility scores for essentially the same reasons they want scores for […]

Karl Groves - 12/08/2026

Among the many ancillary arguments you tend to hear about why you should care about accessibility is the pitch: “Accessibility improves your SEO!” It’s the sweetener accessibility advocates add add when they suspect compliance alone won’t close the deal. And like most such arguments, it contains just enough truth to survive scrutiny – as long […]

Karl Groves - 11/06/2026

WAI-ARIA 1.3 is shaping up to be useful for rich document editors, annotation systems, complex forms, and interfaces where visible content does not always map cleanly to what assistive technologies need. Please note: ARIA 1.3 is still a draft. The current W3C ARIA Working Group charter lists WAI-ARIA as a Living Recommendation, with ARIA 1.3 […]

Karl Groves - 20/05/2026

How to Turn Accessibility Work Into Evidence-Based Progress Digital accessibility programs often begin with good intentions: an audit, a backlog of issues, a remediation plan, maybe a few training sessions. But sooner or later, leadership asks a harder question: Are we actually getting better? For many organizations, that question is difficult to answer. Accessibility work […]

Karl Groves - 29/04/2026

The Overlay Factsheet describes an accessibility overlay as follows: The fundamental constraint you will notice as you dive into the details below is that post-rendered remediation is working against the framework, not with it. React (and similar frameworks) own the DOM. The framework expects to be the single source of truth for element structure, attributes, […]

Karl Groves - 10/04/2026