Funny seeing you here ;)
I'm rather getting into Shindig at the moment!
Ben
On 9 Dec 2008, at 14:22, Dan Brickley wrote:
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.
