Monthly Archives: March 2009

Updated ARIA-spiced form example to work in IE 8

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Marco

I updated my simple form example from the third Easy ARIA Tip to also work in IE 8. I had to explicitly state a doc type to put IE out of quirks mode into proper IE 8 mode, and I … Continue reading →

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Last week in the “Accessible” module, March 30, 2009

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Marco

The last week was rather short, but no less busy. First, on the off-code side, I attended the European Accessibility Forum Frankfurt (EAFRA) conference on Friday, March 27. Christian Heilmann from Yahoo! posted a great summary of the event and … Continue reading →

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Last week in the “Accessible” module, March 24, 2008

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Marco

As the accessibility team was at the 2009 CSUN Center on Persons with Disabilities conference last week, not much happened on the forefront that is visible to bug and code watchers. The only changes that landed were: a fix for … Continue reading →

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Last week in the “Accessible” module, March 16, 2009

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Marco

Last week, we focused mostly on some solidification on our code and test framework. We are having some strange problems with tests failing randomly or not being run at all. To that end, I fixed the loading of remote images … Continue reading →

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Happy birthday, world wide web!

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Marco

Today, CERN will celebrate the 20th birthday of the world wide web. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Tim Berners-Lee for writing the initial proposal and sticking to the idea even though his boss, Mike Sendall forgot about … Continue reading →

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Last week in the “Accessible” module, March 9, 2009

Posted on March 9, 2009 by Marco

Last week’s work saw quite some code cleanup. Unification of role and finalRole Previously, our nsI*Accessible interfaces exposed both role and finalRole properties. While role returned a preliminary role, finalRole always returned the finally determined role after all markup and … Continue reading →

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JQuery UI 1.7 released

Posted on March 7, 2009 by Marco

The jQuery UI team has released jQuery UI 1.7. Congrats on this release! One thing the team did not mention in the above blog post is the fact that jQuery UI 1.7 is the first version to contain WAI-ARIA enhancements, … Continue reading →

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Firefox 3.0.7 fixes screen reader users in GMail!

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Marco

As you may or may not have read yet, Firefox 3.0.7 was just released. This security and stability update brings a very important fix for all screen reader users wanting to use GMail. Previously, it was not possible to open … Continue reading →

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Last week in the “Accessible” module, March 2, 2009

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Marco

This is the first in an ongoing weekly series where I’ll highlight items that the accessibility team has been working on over the last week. I’ll be reporting on fixed bugs, or will also call out on items that we … Continue reading →

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