Category Archives: ARIA

Last weeks in the “Accessible” module, May 11, 2009

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Marco

Sorry for being a slacker in updating you guys regularly on what’s been happening! But we’ve been quite busy at getting some stuff finished and hopefully ready for inclusion in 3.5. I already posted about the return of the descriptions … Continue reading →

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Last week in the “Accessible” module, April 20, 2009

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Marco

After the Easter holidays, pace has picked up again in the development of accessibility features and other work surrounding our eco system. Actions for sorting and expansion/collapsing After some minor setbacks, David’s patch on exposing actions for ARIA sort and … Continue reading →

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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 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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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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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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At FOSDEM 2009

Posted on February 5, 2009 by Marco

I’ll be at FOSDEM in Brussels this weekend. I’ll be at the Mozilla booth or attending sessions in the dev rooms. If you feel like dropping by and talk accessibility, ARIA and such, feel welcomed!

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JAWS 10 public beta’s Firefox 3 support: A review

Posted on August 26, 2008 by Marco

In the August issue of the “FS Cast” podcast, Freedom Scientific announced the soon-to-be expected availability of JAWS 10 public beta. They also demoed many of the new features, like the automatic forms mode switching. They also mentioned that they … Continue reading →

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ARIA in Gmail #2: Enhancing the Chat experience

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Marco

This post continues a series on the implementation of ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) in Gmail. On July 30, Orca team lead Willie Walker forwarded a message to the Orca mailing list titled Orca & gmail. The message is originally … Continue reading →

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More ARIA in the news

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Marco

As I’m catching up with news after my return from Whistler, I have two suggested ARIA-related readings for you: Gez Lemon of the Opera Developer community has posted an article titled Introduction to WAI ARIA. This is probably the most … Continue reading →

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ARIA in Gmail #1: Alerts

Posted on August 4, 2008 by Marco

Google have recently started to put ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) into GMail. This means that ARIA is now getting a lot more exposure than it used to, with GMail being probably one of the most widely used web applications … Continue reading →

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Easy ARIA tip #3: aria-invalid and role “alert”

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Marco

I know, I know, it’s been a while since I posted my last Easy ARIA tip. But I’m hoping that this one will find you all excited and willing to play with it some more! The problem: You have a … Continue reading →

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WordPress 2.6 brings a lot of accessibility improvements!

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Marco

I just upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.6. This version brings with it a number of accessibility enhancements. One thing you might have noticed already is that there is now a default language set. Default English blogs should now always … Continue reading →

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Two new ARIA related resources

Posted on May 30, 2008 by Marco

There are two new ARIA resources that recently entered the web which I’d like to point you to if you’re interested: Paciello Group have started an ARIA tutorial. Peter Thiessen of ATRC in Toronto, Canada, has started a blog on … Continue reading →

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Impressions from a German Web 2.0 accessibility conference

Posted on May 12, 2008 by Marco

Last week on Tuesday, I attended a German web 2.0 accessibility conference titled Einfach für Alle – Konzepte und Zukunftsbilder für ein Barrierefreies Internet, loosely translated “Simply for all – Concepts and Visions for an accessible internet”. The conference was … Continue reading →

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Are Ajax and Accessibility mutually exclusive?

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Marco

Peter of ATRC and an a11y community member, pointed me to a blog post titled “Stop using Ajax!”, written by OperaDev community member James “Brothercake” Edwards. My initial reaction was “Oh no! Not another one who uses accessibility as the … Continue reading →

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Started on automated test case development

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Marco

As some of you may already have read on the newsgroups, or heard through statements from me or other accessibility developers at the Firefox project, one of my tasks is to develop automated test cases for our accessibility module. I … Continue reading →

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Putting final touches on Firefox 3 accessibility

Posted on April 23, 2008 by Marco

Over the past weeks the developers and I have been spending time putting the final touches on Firefox 3 accessibility. Here are some of the things worth noting: On Linux, the Library dialog will be working correctly in the upcoming … Continue reading →

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