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Re: WAI ARIA - recommendations?

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From: chris chandler
Date: Apr 12, 2011 12:39PM

I'm very interested in this aria (sorry, bad pun) -- at the risk of sounding
totally lazy, what articles/resources do people recommend for someone who
wants to go from very little knowledge now, but in the near future would
like to discuss in detail with a web developer why he or she should be using
WAI ARIA??

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On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Dylan Barrell < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> I agree with Jared, there are a lot of ways that WAI-ARIA can be used
> to enhance existing HTML to make it easier to use in an additive way.
>
> A good example is aria-live. It can be used to do things that cannot
> be done with any other technique.
>
> Examples:
>
> 1) Announcing search suggestions
> 2) Politely announcing changes to a marquee
>
> Without these, the content can still be accessible (e.g. the marquee
> can have all its elements keyboard focusable, even when not visible)
> but with them, the content is much more usable (at least when used in
> the right way, if used in the wrong way they can be irritating too).
>
> You can also start using things like role="presentation" on your
> layout tables and then the AT no longer has to try to guess at what
> type of table it is. If the AT does not support this yet, then the
> role will be ignored. Same for purely presentational images.
>
> It would be nice to try to catalogue all the additive ARIA uses...
>
> --Dylan
>