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From: Kaveinthran Pulanthran
Date: Wed, Feb 20 2013 5:43AM
Subject: would like to learn aria
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hi,
I am still new to web designing and curious to learn aria from the
very beginning.I no quite a lot of html and I have some questions
regarding aria
1. do I need other knowledge other then html to learn aria?
2. Where I do get started?
thanks
From: Kaveinthran Pulanthran
Date: Wed, Feb 20 2013 5:43AM
Subject: Re: would like to learn aria
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hi,
I am still new to web designing and curious to learn aria from the
very beginning.I no quite a lot of html and I have some questions
regarding aria
1. do I need other knowledge other then html to learn aria?
2. Where I do get started?
thanks
From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Wed, Feb 20 2013 6:00AM
Subject: Re: would like to learn aria
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2013-02-20 14:43, Kaveinthran Pulanthran wrote:
> I am still new to web designing and curious to learn aria from the
> very beginning.I no quite a lot of html and I have some questions
> regarding aria
> 1. do I need other knowledge other then html to learn aria?
> 2. Where I do get started?
I think the W3C working draft "Using WAI-ARIA in HTML" is rather
self-contained, to a person who roughly knows what HTML is about:
http://www.w3.org/TR/aria-in-html/
It does not explain much the motivation and theory. Instead, it's a
guide to actually using ARIA attributes in HTML, how to do it and what
to avoid. Abd it also contains a description of those attributes, not
complete in every detail, but probably quite sufficient for the vast
majority of cases.
Yucca
From: Detlev Fischer
Date: Wed, Feb 20 2013 6:12AM
Subject: Re: would like to learn aria
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If you use ARIA beyond using landmarks and things like aria-describedby / aria-labeledby you will usually also have use JavaScript. If you create aria-enabled custom widgets such as combo boxes, popup-divs, sliders, accordions etc, you will use JavaScript it to change the state of your widget elements in response to user actions and manage keyboard focus. Aria on it's own doesn't *do* anything - it just lends semantics to the divs and spans you are likely to be using for such widgets, i.e. passes on meaningful roles names and states to the assisitve technology (screen readers) based on that API.
Cheers, Detlev
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From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: Wed, Feb 20 2013 10:03AM
Subject: Re: would like to learn aria
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Here is a link to the Mozilla Developer' Network's resources related to ARIA:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/aria
At least based on what I last heard, this was seeking to be a
definitive resource for ARIA information, so others on this list who
are building the body of knowledge on the subject might want to make
contributions to it.
People who are interested in ARIA might want to join the free-aria
email list which is a Google Group.
Jennifer
At 04:43 AM 2/20/2013, you wrote:
>hi,
>
>I am still new to web designing and curious to learn aria from the
>very beginning.I no quite a lot of html and I have some questions
>regarding aria
>1. do I need other knowledge other then html to learn aria?
>2. Where I do get started?
>
>thanks
>>>