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Category Archives: ARIA
Last week in the “Accessible” module, March 16, 2009
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
Last week in the “Accessible” module, March 9, 2009
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
JQuery UI 1.7 released
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
Last week in the “Accessible” module, March 2, 2009
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
Posted in Accessibility, ARIA, Firefox, Mozilla, QA, Testing
Tagged Accessibility, GeckoAccessibleModule, Mozilla
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At FOSDEM 2009
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!
JAWS 10 public beta’s Firefox 3 support: A review
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
ARIA in Gmail #2: Enhancing the Chat experience
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
More ARIA in the news
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
ARIA in Gmail #1: Alerts
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
Easy ARIA tip #3: aria-invalid and role “alert”
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
Posted in Accessibility, ARIA, Firefox, Uncategorized
Tagged Accessibility, ARIA, Firefox
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WordPress 2.6 brings a lot of accessibility improvements!
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
Posted in Accessibility, ARIA, Firefox, Orca, WordPress
Tagged Accessibility, ARIA, Firefox, NVDA, Orca, WordPress
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Two new ARIA related resources
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
Impressions from a German Web 2.0 accessibility conference
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
Posted in Accessibility, ARIA, Mozilla
Tagged Accessibility, ARIA, Conference, EinfachFuerAlle
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Are Ajax and Accessibility mutually exclusive?
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
Posted in Accessibility, ARIA, Firefox, Orca
Tagged Accessibility, Ajax, ARIA, Dojo, Firefox, Jquery
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Started on automated test case development
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
Putting final touches on Firefox 3 accessibility
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
A follow up to my Easy ARIA tip #2
Community member Ben Millard has pointed out in a recent blog post that roughly the same as shown in my example can be achieved using regular HTML 4 by embedding the input into the label. Thanks for that info, Ben! … Continue reading
Easy ARIA tip #2: aria-labelledby and aria-describedby
Sorry it took me so long to get back to it, but here it is, my second tip on the usage of some easy ARIA markup to make your sites more accessible. Imagine this: You have a form where you … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, ARIA, Firefox
Tagged Accessibility, ARIA, aria-describedby, aria-labelledby, attribute, HTML
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Easy ARIA Tip #1: Using aria-required
Inspired by a conversation I had with Aaron the other day, I’m starting a mini series about easy accessibility improvements you can accomplish using ARIA, but which do not require you to implement a whole widget. Some ARIA attributes also … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, ARIA, Firefox
Tagged Accessibility, ARIA, aria-required, attributes, Firefox, HTML
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Yahoo! demonstrating wai-aria roles and states with their YUI Menu Control
Victor Tsaran, accessibility guru at Yahoo!, just posted to the mozilla.dev.accessibility newsgroup that they implemented wai-aria roles and states into the Yahoo! UI’s menu control. You can find the blog post here. To try it out: From within the blog … Continue reading