Web accessibility experts often say something like, “Screen reader users prefer…” followed by some accessibility recommendation. However, many of these recommendations are based on personal preference or conjecture – often from sighted users who only test with screen readers. The fact is that there is little data about screen reader usage to back up these […]
After nearly 8 years in development, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines has been finalized and has reached recommendation status. Congratulations to the working group on this accomplishment. Read the press release. For entertainment, go back and read the initial, January 2001 version of the guidelines to see how the guidelines have dramatically changed (and for […]
This new article provides an overview of ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) and demonstrates how it can be used to resolve many of the accessibility issues found in dynamic, complex web applications and widgets. Additional ARIA documentation and examples will be coming to the WebAIM site in the near future. Read the article at http://webaim.org/techniques/aria/
UPDATE: Microsoft announced January 16, 2009 that they will now support ARIA properties and states according to spec. Cheers to Microsoft for making this move to support standards and accessible web development. Momentum WAI-ARIA, the W3C protocol for making rich internet applications more accessible, is gaining much momentum (Read the ARIA FAQ). Even though ARIA […]
Eight months ago, WebAIM announced the first general release of the new WAVE Web Accessibility Tool version 4. Since that time, the WAVE team has been hard at work fixing bugs, improving efficiency, enhancing the test rules, and preparing for new WAVE features and projects. We therefore thought this would be a good time to […]
