As this year comes to an end, we at WebAIM wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. This is an appropriate time for us to look back at the previous year and also to the future. In 2010, WebAIM saw many changes. For the first time in our history, we functioned primarily without any […]
Today, two articles were published on A List Apart about ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) – The Accessibility of WAI-ARIA by Detlev Fischer and ARIA and Progressive Enhancement by Derek Featherstone. Like the ghosts in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, they present an accurate, though somewhat depressing picture of the current and potential future state of […]
WebAIM is excited that eBay has recently launched a set of enhancements to its web site that makes the buying and selling experience more accessible. Users can list, search, navigate, select, and purchase an item on the eBay web site with greater ease. In April and May, WebAIM staff traveled to eBay’s corporate headquarters in […]
WebAIM is often approached by individuals and organizations concerned about “ADA compliance” of their web site. This is a bit of a misnomer. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 pre-dates and does not address web accessibility at all. That may soon be changing. This week the US Department of Justice announced that they are […]
As many of you know, I and a very tiny army of WebAIM software engineers are currently hard at work developing WAVE5–the fifth version of our ever-popular WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool. As part of this process, we’re planning to move from the “static web page” model used for the first four incarnations of WAVE […]
