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From: Cameron Cundiff
Date: Sep 11, 2013 9:47AM

Starting a new thread to discuss testing accessibility at an OS level (see Why
Accessibility APIs
Matter<http://www.marcozehe.de/2013/09/07/why-accessibility-apis-matter/>;
)

From Steve Faulkner

> http://www.html5accessibility.com/
> it's not been updated for a year now (i am getting to it) but it provides
> an overview of the various browser acc implementations.


useful for ARIA and when to use roles to add support for elements
> semantics: http://rawgithub.com/w3c/aria-in-html/master/index.html


The mapping of ARIA attributes to Mac OSX accessibility API is available
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-implementation/#mapping_role_table (last
> column)



> for HTML
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html-aapi/#html-element-to-accessibility-api-role-mapping-matrix


From Alistair Campbell

> Testing for Accessibility on OS X<https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Accessibility/Conceptual/AccessibilityMacOSX/OSXAXTesting/OSXAXTestingApps.html>