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Tag Archives: ARIA
Easy ARIA Tip #6: Making clickables accessible
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
If you use the WAI-ARIA role “application”, please do so wisely!
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
From WAI-ARIA to HTML5 and back…or maybe not?
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
Posted in Accessibility, ARIA
Tagged Accessibility, ARIA, ConstraintValidation, HTML5, HTML5Forms, WAI-ARIA
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What’s new in accessibility in Firefox 6
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
New accessibility support for HTML5 elements and attributes
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
Posted in Accessibility, ARIA, Firefox
Tagged Accessibility, ARIA, Firefox, HTML5, Landmark
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Apple’s iOS 4 supports WAI-ARIA landmarks
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
Posted in Accessibility, Apple, ARIA
Tagged Accessibility, Apple, ARIA, iOS4, VoiceOver, WAI-ARIA
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Easy ARIA Tip #5: aria-expanded and aria-controls
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
Last week in the “Accessible” module, March 30, 2009
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
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
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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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