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Title:

Get Rich, Remain Accessible

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Intermediate

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Category:

Technical, Programming

Organizer:

Martin Kliehm , BlueMars

Description:

Web applications often have accessibility issues. Anything can be a button or a dialog box. There's no way for a screen reader to know about the functionality of those elements, and often they can't receive keyboard focus. The W3C standards draft for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) addresses those issues. A dual presentation with Gez Lemon of juicystudio.com

Gez Lemon and I plan to run that presentation together. Gez wrote a great article about ARIA liveregions at juicystudio.com, and I wrote that article at A List Apart. We would like to present:

a) The accessibility problems introduced by the current trend of web applications

b) New ways to add semantic meaning, communicate importance, define relationships, and give focus to elements using WAI-ARIA

c) How to limit the impact of these problems whilst WAI-ARIA is gaining support by user-agents, and techniques that work right now

I voted for it! Fully agree with Your idea!

I won't be able to attend, but agree with the ideas - good luck!

I voted for it 2.
Thank :)

I think this is a great topic! The most overlooked by developers but a really important part of making the web usable for everyone.

Great Idea, i wish you good luck, hope it will succed, voted too

Reference: Very helpful, thanks!!

Nice article. Very helpful, thanks!!

Very insightful..

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