WAI-ARIA Implementation in JavaScript UI Libraries – updated
A number of popular Javascript UI Libraries are in the process of adding WAI-ARIA support to their widgets and components. What is the current status and future plans for WAI-ARIA…
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PDF Accessibility Webinar
PDF & WCAG 2.0 Charlie Pike from TPGi is presenting a PDF Accessibility Webinar in conjunction with Adobe Acrobat User Group. It’s free to attend, pre-registration required. Wednesday, June 17…
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ARIA Role Support in Safari 4.0
Victor Tsarin asked on Twitter Safari4 final came out but I don’t see any #ARIA improvements. Do you? The Safari 4 New features page talks about ARIA support Safari supports…
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Notes on accessibility of text replacement using HTML5 canvas
Roger Johannson recently blogged on issues with Cufon Accessibility in relation to Assistive Technology, which is well worth a read. It prompted me to do a little testing:
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Thinking About HTML 5 canvas Accessibility
The canvas element is a new element of the ‘in progress’ HTML 5 specification, it provides the ability to create dynamically generated graphics in HTML in conjunction with JavaScript. It…
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Webinar Rerecorded: Adobe Flash and WCAG 2
The Flash and WCAG 2 webinar was rerecorded due to quality issues with the original live version
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Google Chrome 2.0 Accessibility Improvements?
When Google first released Chrome back in September 2008, I carried out a quick and dirty accessibility analysis of it. With the release of Google chrome 2.0 I though it…
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Comparison of ARIA roles exposed via MSAA and UI Automation in IE8
The Microsoft MSAA API cannot provide mapping for all ARIA roles as it does not have defined roles and properties for all those defined by The ARIA specification, the Microsoft…
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AOL/TopCoder Accessibility Developer Competition
AOL/TopCoder® Accessibility Developer Competition to Culminate at 2009 TopCoder Open. Winning Accessibility Application of AOL/TopCoder Sensations Developer Challenge to be Announced June 1-4, 2009 – Las Vegas, NV
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PDF Forms & WCAG 2.0 Webinar
PDF Forms & WCAG 2.0 The recording, transcript, and slides from the PDF Forms & WCAG 2.0 webinar, presented by TPGi in conjunction with Adobe, is now available: Captioned streamed…
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Flash & WCAG 2.0 Webinar
Flash & WCAG 2.0 The recording, transcript, and slides from the second of the Flash , PDF & WCAG 2.0 webinars, presented by TPGi in conjunction with Adobe, is now…
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Adobe PDF & WCAG 2.0 Webinar
PDF & WCAG 2.0 The recording, transcript, and slides from the PDF & WCAG 2.0 webinars presented by TPGi in conjunction with Adobe, is now available: Captioned streaming media recording…
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TPGi and Adobe Present WCAG 2.0 Accessibility Webinars for Flash and PDF
TPGi & Adobe Press Release (Adobe PDF document, 72 kb) TPGi & Adobe Press Release (Microsft Word document, 37 kb) March 19, 2009 – Nashua, NH. TPGi (TPG) and Adobe…
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WAI-ARIA role support – How the MAC browsers stack up
For the roles defined in WAI-ARIA it is expected that browsers expose the role values via an accessibility API, on the Apple OS X platform the information is exposed using…
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WAI-ARIA role support – How the browsers stack up
For the roles defined in WAI-ARIA it is expected that browsers expose the role values via an accessibility API, on the Windows platform the information is usually exposed using the…
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CSUN Tweetup
The Paciello Group, Opera, and WebAIM are pleased to coordinate and sponsor a tweetup at the CSUN Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference. The tweetup will be held Wednesday, March…
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W3C Validator for MAC OSX with Experimental WAI-ARIA Support
Chuck Houpt, developer of the Validator SAC (standalone version of the W3C validation service) for MAC OSX, has kindly added the (X)HTML DTD’s I developed (hacked) to his application. This…
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How Can I Validate (X)HTML + ARIA?
An issue with the use of WAI-ARIA in HTML documents is that they don’t validate. When you run a HTML document containing ARIA attributes through the W3C Validator it shows…
