Posts Tagged ‘webkit’

ComputerWorld says ‘Safari 4 Tuned to Web Standards…Accessibility…ARIA”

January 1, 2010, filed under Safari, Standards, WAI-ARIA; 2 Comments.
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IDG/ComputerWorld’s Tom Yager wrote an interesting review of Safari 4. Among several interesting points concerning WebKit and performance, Yager wrote,
“A fast and pretty browser won’t cut it for me. A browser — and, indeed, any application that incorporates the linkable framework of that browser — must place an equal emphasis on standards promotion and [...]

Apple Webkit Gets Serious About WAI-ARIA (on Mac)

September 28, 2009, filed under Accessibility, Apple, Assistive Technology, General, HTML 5, MSAA, Safari, VoiceOver, W3C, WAI-ARIA, Web Accessibility, landmark roles, open source; 5 Comments.
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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.