ARIA Resources
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Information
Articles and Tutorials
- Video introducing WAI-ARIA by Todd Kloots of Yahoo!, Inc.
- Article introducing WAI-ARIA by Gez Lemon of The Paciello Group. Also available in Spanish and French.
- Web_2.0_Accessibility_with_WAI-ARIA_FAQ
- Easy ARIA tips for enhancing HTML forms:
- Developing an ARIA slider by Hans Hillen
- Enhancing TabView accessibility with ARIA by Todd Kloots
- AJAX accessibility article by John Resig
- Accessible Web 2.0 Applications by Martin Kliehm
- Building an accessible rating widget with Dojo and WAI-ARIA by Peter Parente
- Docs/Keyboard_navigable_JS_widgets -- not sure if this is competely covered by newer tutorials and docs.
- WebAIM's intro to ARIA
Specifics on ARIA implementations
Resources
- W3C's WAI-ARIA draft specification
- W3C's WAI-ARIA Best Practices Guide provides strong recommendations for learning about Web 2.0 accessibility
- W3C's WAI-ARIA Primer is a good introduction to Web 2.0 accessibility
- Style guide for keyboard interaction in DHTML widgets, which is discussed on the wai-xtech mailing list
- Various ARIA Examples Illinois Center for Information Technology Accessibility
- ARIA User Agent Implementors Guide to assist developers of user agents (warning: this is for web browser developers and most likely confusing for authors)
Blogs
- Access Garage
- Juicy Studio
- Marco's Accessibility Blog
- The Access Pond
- The Paciello Group
- IT Solutions Blog (accessibility specific)
- mindforks (aria specific)
- YUI Blog (accessibility-specific entries)
Videos
- NVDA (Open Source Screen Reader for Windows)
Tools
Validation and Testing
- WAI-ARIA+HTML5 validation prototype
- NVDA screen reader for Windows
- Orca screen reader for GNOME
- Juicy Studio Accessibility Toolbar Inspects color contrast, tables and all WAI-ARIA markup, including highlighting live regions.
- Eclipse ACTF Accessibility Probe (AccProbe) for inspecting, event-monitoring, and exploring a hierarchy of accessible objects in an MSAA- or IAccessible2-enabled application. Because WAI-ARIA support in Firefox 3.x is primarily achieved using IAccessible2, AccProbe can be used to inspect and explore accessible objects that represent elements in the DOM that use WAI-ARIA.
- JAWS 10 Public Beta A beta version of the screen reader with LiveRegions support. However, please note that a full JAWS license is required for testing any "HTML or Web Based" code.
JavaScript toolkits
- Dojo
- YUI
- GWT
- JQuery support is under development ... stay tuned
- access.see.be - Testing Phase! Feel free to give your feedback on the project´s website or in the "Free ARIA"-Google Group
ARIA Fixup
These are tools for supplementing the HTML in web applications with ARIA markup as they load into a browser. In order for a user to benefit, they must install the tools, and ARIA metadata must exist in the system for the given web application.
- AxsJAX from Google
- Social Accessibility from IBM -- supports live region metadata
Discussion
Newsgroups / Mailing Lists
- Mozilla Dev Accessibility
- Free ARIA This group is for people who want to help provide free tools and resources for the advancement of WAI-ARIA.
- wai-xtech archive The mailing list for public dicussions of ARIA is wai-xtech. People who want to participate in wai-xtech should email the PFWG Chair to request a subscription.
IRC
- Mozilla join the #accessibility channel (irc.mozilla.org)
- W3C join the #wai-aria channel (irc.w3.org:6665) for public discussions about WAI-ARIA, Members should keep discussion of internal drafts on #pf.
