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 to add support in Window-Eyes. The JAWS version 10 public beta is scheduled for release during the week of August 24, 2008!
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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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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 in Gmail.
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After much data crunching Of ’billions of web pages’, in his infinite wisdom the King of HTML5 has given us a whole new way of using the alt attribute in HTML5:
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Gez Lemon from TPG has written an article for Dev.Opera, which provides an Introduction to WAI ARIA.
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I started to write a post about the new social accessibility tools/services that have been announced in the last week or so: IBM Social Accessibility Project and Webvisum.
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Raising Issues
In order to raise an issue or proposal in regards to the HTML5 specification you do not have to be a member of the W3C HTML Working Group (HTML WG). Anyone can simply enter a bug into the HTML Bugzilla. If the proposal or issue is rejected by those that control the specification and […]
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After covering a basic ARIA slider as well as a more complex slider component, we will take a closer look at how a slider can be used to create a more obscure but very powerful widget: the double slider (or ‘range slider’). We will discuss what to think about when creating a double slider, and […]
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A beta version of the RNIB Surf Right Toolbar (for IE) is now available. This is a tool for users to help them modify web content presentation to suit their needs. The toolbar brings built in Internet Explorer Accessibility features to the fore, as well as providing enhanced custom styles support and and easy access […]
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In my previous post I gave an example for a very minimalistic ARIA slider, with the intention of demonstrating how simple it is to add ARIA using only a few attributes. I know there are some developers out there who wishfully think that, in order to make their rich interface widgets accessible, all they have to do is add ARIA to it. Others are skeptical about ARIA for that very reason. The truth is of course that ARIA is only part of the effort, and work is required to make any widget accessible (whether you’re using ARIA or not). In this post I want to cover some of those issues and give an overview of what else to think about when creating an accessible slider.
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