The Paciello Group (TPG) has been selected by AOL to enhance the accessibility of jQuery, a popular open source toolkit used to build dynamic web applications. This work will foster greater compatibility between consumer-facing web applications and assistive technology used by people with disabilities to access the Internet.
A check of the support for WAI-ARIA roles in the latest Webkit Nightly builds, reveals a major improvement for WAI-ARIA role support on the Mac version of Webkit (an open source web browser engine), but the Windows version shows little progress.
When Google first released Chrome back in September 2008, I carried out a quick and dirty accessibility analysis of it. With the release of Google chrome 2.0 I though it worthwhile to have another look to see what improvements have been made. While there has been progress, for many users with disabilities, Google Chrome is [...]
Chuck Houpt, developer of the Validator SAC (standalone version of the W3C validation service) for MAC OSX, has kindly added the (X)HTML DTD’s I developed (hacked) to his application. This means that you can check your (X)HTML files containing ARIA attributes without them being flagged as errors. You can also check whether ARIA attributes and [...]
Bare-naked Flash: Dispelling myths and building bridges - Aral Balkan’s presentation notes on Flash accessibility, amongst other things.