Archive for January, 2009

How Can I Validate (X)HTML + ARIA?

January 19, 2009, filed under HTML, HTML 5, Standards, W3C, W3C Validator, WAI-ARIA, Web Accessibility, accessibility testing, landmark roles, tools; 22 Comments.

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 errors in the results for any ARIA attributes. More importantly it does not inform me of errors in the ARIA code, for example, if the [...]

Using WAI ARIA Landmark Roles

January 15, 2009, filed under HTML, HTML 5, JAWS, NVDA, Screen Readers, Standards, W3C, WAI-ARIA, Web Accessibility, Window Eyes, WordPress, Zoomtext, landmark roles; 31 Comments.
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WAI-ARIA Landmark Roles
The WAI ARIA specification defines a set of specialised “landmark” roles. These roles provide a method to programmatically identify commonly found sections of web page content in a consistent way. they can be used now in whatever flavour of (X)HTML you prefer. This allows assistive technologies to provide users with features which they [...]