Forwarding this, as I've been meaning to ask: are any members of the
Shindig developer community looking at the use of ARIA markup to explore
improving OpenSocial's accessibility?
More on ARIA, http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-roadmap/
"The Roadmap for Accessible Rich Internet Applications addresses the
accessibility of dynamic Web content for people with disabilities. The
roadmap introduces the technologies to map controls, Ajax live regions,
and events to accessibility APIs, including custom controls used for
Rich Internet Applications. The roadmap also describes new navigation
techniques to mark common Web structures as menus, primary content,
secondary content, banner information and other types of Web structures.
These new technologies can be used to improve the accessibility and
usability of Web resources by people with disabilities, without
extensive modification to existing libraries of Web resources."
Blurb for the video below - "YUI Engineer and accessibility specialist
Todd Kloots introduces the best practices in using the emerging ARIA
standards to engineer rich, interactive web sites that work well with
screen reader software."
cheers,
Dan
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Subject: Yahoo! posts new video on ARIA development
Resent-Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:12:36 +0000
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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 15:11:53 +0100
From: Aaron M Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I highly recommend Yahoo's new video Developing Accessible Widgets using
ARIA:
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/4073211/10996186
Todd Kloots uses real examples to cover setting up the ARIA development
and testing environment, landmark roles, widgets, enabling complex
widgets with progressive enhancement, keyboard navigation, live regions,
custom widgets and more.
A big thank you to Todd Kloots and Yahoo! for putting this together.
