How Semantics and ARIA Attributes Support Accessible Design
Most accessibility issues aren’t related to flashy visual content. Instead, they start with missing meaning. A button that looks right but doesn’t “say” it’s a button. A modal that appears…
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Enough with the role-play—let’s get back to the basics
Having read Steve Faulkner’s post a short while ago about the often-questionable use of roles in HTML when a more suitable native HTML element would be far better, I was…
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Short note on aria-labelledby and aria-describedby
The ARIA attributes aria-labelledby and aria-describedby can be used to provide an accessible name or accessible description for a subset of HTML elements. It is important to note that by…
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Short Note on ARIA, Dragon and Standards
There has been ongoing discussion, mainly on twitter, about Dragon naturally speaking, ARIA and Accessibility APIs. A recent tweet informs these notes.
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Accessible drag and drop using WAI-ARIA now in French
Recently Gez Lemon of TPGi wrote an article for the Opera Developer Network on Accessible drag and drop using WAI-ARIA. His colleague Cedric Trevisan has translated Gez’s article into French.
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WAI-ARIA Implementation in JavaScript UI Libraries – updated
A number of popular Javascript UI Libraries are in the process of adding WAI-ARIA support to their widgets and components. What is the current status and future plans for WAI-ARIA…
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ARIA Role Support in Safari 4.0
Victor Tsarin asked on Twitter Safari4 final came out but I don’t see any #ARIA improvements. Do you? The Safari 4 New features page talks about ARIA support Safari supports…
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Comparison of ARIA roles exposed via MSAA and UI Automation in IE8
The Microsoft MSAA API cannot provide mapping for all ARIA roles as it does not have defined roles and properties for all those defined by The ARIA specification, the Microsoft…
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WAI-ARIA role support – How the MAC browsers stack up
For the roles defined in WAI-ARIA it is expected that browsers expose the role values via an accessibility API, on the Apple OS X platform the information is exposed using…
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WAI-ARIA role support – How the browsers stack up
For the roles defined in WAI-ARIA it is expected that browsers expose the role values via an accessibility API, on the Windows platform the information is usually exposed using the…
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How Can I Validate (X)HTML + ARIA?
An issue with the use of WAI-ARIA in HTML documents is that they don’t validate. When you run a HTML document containing ARIA attributes through the W3C Validator it shows…
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Testing ARIA User Input control’s navigation support.
Assistive technology such as screen readers provide keyboard short cuts for navigating the content of web pages. For user input controls such as radio buttons and edit boxes the user…
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Testing WAI-ARIA Role Support
For WAI-ARIA to be useful, to people with disabilities who use assistive technology, access to the information that ARIA roles and properties provides must be well supported across a range…
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Free ARIA
Aaron Leventhal has set up a new group for people who want to help provide free tools and resources for the advancement of WAI-ARIA.
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JAWS version 10 with WAI-ARIA live region support!
I for one have been waiting to hear this news. One of the big 2 commercial screen readers will now support WAI-ARIA live regions. Let’s hope that this prompts GWMicro…
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Hands-On Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) @ SXSW Interactive 2009
Martin Kliehm has proposed a panel for South by Southwest (SXSW) held March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas. : ‘Hands-On Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)’ .
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Do WAI-ARIA – Google Is!
There a bunch of interesting posts on Marco’s blog about WAI-ARIA: The first one ARIA in Gmail #1: Alerts is about the use of the WAI-ARIA role=”alert” and its use…
