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Can JavaScript widgets be made accessible? What about live AJAX regions and other Web 2.0 wizardry?
Yes, via a new standard from W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative. The Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) specification provides a way to pepper page markup with the additional accessibility information needed by users of assistive technologies such as screen readers.
Getting started with WAI-ARIA
- Video introducing WAI-ARIA by Todd Kloots of Yahoo!, Inc.
- Article introducing WAI-ARIA by Gez Lemon of The Paciello Group.
- The Web_2.0_Accessibility_with_WAI-ARIA_FAQ
- The full list of ARIA_Resources
Official W3C Resources
- ARIA Best Practices -- a description of accepted techniques
- WAI-ARIA specification -- a useful reference, but not recommended as an intro
New stuff under development
This site is a wiki, which means anyone can change it. Don't fear -- if we see something we're not sure we like then we'll reverse the changes and/or contact the author. We'd love your contribution. To join in, just create an account and consult the User's Guide for information on using this wiki.
Here are some things we're working on:
- How to create accessible JavaScript widgets (comment: I'm not sure if we want to break that up already (davidb)).
- How to use ARIA Live Regions for dynamic content but quite a bit more code is needed (thiessenp AKA PeterT).
- Set of ARIA Test Cases -- a large set of WAI-ARIA test cases and data on what works in what software.
- Video tutorials. See also the ARIA_Video_Project_Home_Page.
