Michelle is bang on. BTW, I should have cross-posted my original message, which I am doing with this reply. I have trouble staying on top of the jQuery UI messages.
cheers, David On Sep 23, 4:12 pm, "Michelle D'Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jorn, > > ARIA roles, states and properties are used to communicate richer > semantics about DHTML to assistive technologies such as screen > readers. You can find out all about it here:http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria > > We added two functions to ui.core: 'ariaRole' and 'ariaState' for > getting and setting roles and states/properties. As an example of how > to use 'ariaRole' and 'ariaState' we added the 'dialog' role to > ui.dialog and used the 'labelledby' property to connect the title to > the dialog. > > .ariaRole("dialog") > .ariaState("labelledby", titleId) > > Now when we listen to the dialog with a screen reader we are told that > it is a dialog with the appropriate title. Before ARIA was added, > opening a dialog resulted in nothing being spoken. This is a huge > improvement in the usability of the dialog for people using assistive > technology. > > I hope that this helps, > > Michelle --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery UI" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-ui?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
