Tag Archives: ARIA

Easy ARIA Tip #6: Making clickables accessible

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Marco

It often happens that designers and web developers agree on the fact that they do not like the standard buttons or the styling capabilities of buttons in browsers. To work around this, they then resort to what’s called clickable text. … Continue reading →

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Sometimes you have to use illegal WAI-ARIA to make stuff work

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Marco

In this blog post, I’d like to recap an experience I just had while trying to apply some accessibility enhancements to the NoodleApp app.net client. The problem NoodleApp uses keyboard shortcuts to allow users to switch back and forth between … Continue reading →

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If you use the WAI-ARIA role “application”, please do so wisely!

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Marco

This goes out to all web developers out there reading this blog and implementing widgets and other rich content in HTML, CSS and JavaScript! If you think of using the WAI-ARIA role “application” in your code, please do so with … Continue reading →

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From WAI-ARIA to HTML5 and back…or maybe not?

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Marco

Over the weekend, I gave a presentation at the German Multimediatreff. I talked about how to make things more accessible by combining HTML5 and WAI-ARIA in smart ways, using HTML5 where available and appropriate, and enhancing the user experience where … Continue reading →

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What’s new in accessibility in Firefox 6

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Marco

On Friday May 27, a bigger update was offered to everyone on the Aurora channel that brought them up to a revision 6 Firefox. As this was a bigger update, it is time to also point out the new stuff … Continue reading →

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New accessibility support for HTML5 elements and attributes

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Marco

In the nightly builds starting November 9th, 2010, there are some HTML5 elements and attributes newly supported by the accessibility APIs. This will be in Firefox 4.0. Landmark elements mapped to WAI-ARIA landmark roles We are mapping the following HTML5 … Continue reading →

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Apple’s iOS 4 supports WAI-ARIA landmarks

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Marco

This is, I believe, my 100th post on this blog, and I’m using it to announce that Apple’s iOS 4, released yesterday for the iPhone and iPod Touch, supports WAI-ARIA landmark in the VoiceOver screen reader. VoiceOver has had, since … Continue reading →

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Easy ARIA Tip #5: aria-expanded and aria-controls

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Marco

In this Easy ARIA tip, I will give you a bit of a hint on how to make not too complex, but still dynamic, menus accessible. We often encounter menus that pop in and out upon a mouse click or … 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 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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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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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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A follow up to my Easy ARIA tip #2

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Marco

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 →

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