WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: factors effecting accessibility for accessibility.

for

From: Gunderson, Jon R
Date: Nov 17, 2010 7:30AM

I would refer you to the W3C Accessible Rich Internet Application specification:

http://www.w3.org/tr/wai-aria

There are also a number of supporting documents that can be found in the following website:

http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/

One of the biggest issues and most difficult for web application developers to understand is supporting the keyboard.
Here is a link to the AOL DHTML style guide to provide information on the keyboard support needed by specific widgets:

http://dev.aol.com/dhtml_style_guide

Here are some widget examples using ARIA and the associated keyboard shortcuts:

http://www.oaa-accessibility.org/examples/

I suggest you try to use an existing web widget toolkit that already supports accessibility like Dojo:

http://www.dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/dijit-a11y-statement.html

Hope this helps. It is easier to design the accessibility in than to add it later.

Jon