Comments on: Full Frontal ’09: Todd Kloots on ARIA and Acessibility http://ajaxian.com/archives/full-frontal-09-todd-kloots-on-aria-and-acessibility Cleaning up the web with Ajax Thu, 17 May 2012 07:43:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: miraglia http://ajaxian.com/archives/full-frontal-09-todd-kloots-on-aria-and-acessibility/comment-page-1#comment-276745 miraglia Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:21:45 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=7976#comment-276745 For those who couldn't make it to Brighton, Todd's talk on YUI 3 and accessibility from YUICONF 2009 is here: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=kloots-yuiconf2009-a11y For those who couldn’t make it to Brighton, Todd’s talk on YUI 3 and accessibility from YUICONF 2009 is here:

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=kloots-yuiconf2009-a11y

]]> By: gabel http://ajaxian.com/archives/full-frontal-09-todd-kloots-on-aria-and-acessibility/comment-page-1#comment-276734 gabel Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:20:48 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=7976#comment-276734 I think it is also about semantic for acessibility enhancing tools. And its even easier to tag roles with jQuery (just pseudo code) $("#navigation,#content,#login").each(function(index){ $("#" + this).attr('role',this); }); And thats just one feature of ARIA. You can define AJAX/Live regions where u define the real interesting areas when content changes and save screenreaders and even more important the listeners a lot of time. ;) It does not have influence on layout or can destroy anything. A browser that does not support ARIA, will just ignore it. One only sad thing is, that even the new designed W3C Validator does not have roles or aria tags. Seems that validation of ARIA enriched HTML documents with the standard DTDs is still not that easy. I think it is also about semantic for acessibility enhancing tools. And its even easier to tag roles with jQuery (just pseudo code)

$(“#navigation,#content,#login”).each(function(index){
$(“#” + this).attr(‘role’,this);
});

And thats just one feature of ARIA. You can define AJAX/Live regions where u define the real interesting areas when content changes and save screenreaders and even more important the listeners a lot of time. ;)

It does not have influence on layout or can destroy anything. A browser that does not support ARIA, will just ignore it.

One only sad thing is, that even the new designed W3C Validator does not have roles or aria tags. Seems that validation of ARIA enriched HTML documents with the standard DTDs is still not that easy.

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