… Generally when I write and present things, I provide techniques, ideas, examples, and experience to address issues. When I write copy-paste-ready code, with a few older exceptions, I write generic code not tied to a framework nor library. … I have, however, written a couple vanilla JavaScript functions that you can drop into yourContinueContinue reading “Functions to Add ARIA to Tables and Lists”
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HTML For Screen Readers – Labelling Elements
To screen readers, a lot of the visual information that is presented on a webpage is lost. Because of this, we need to specifically provide information to them that may be obvious to a person looking at the page. One common way people define information specifically for screen readers is to wrap the descriptive textContinueContinue reading “HTML For Screen Readers – Labelling Elements”
ARIA Labels and Relationships | Web | Google Developers
Labels ARIA provides several mechanisms for adding labels and descriptions to elements. In fact, ARIA is the only way to add accessible help or description text. Let’s look at the properties ARIA uses to create accessible labels. aria-label aria-label allows us to specify a string to be used as the accessible label. This overrides any otherContinueContinue reading “ARIA Labels and Relationships | Web | Google Developers”
Web Accessibility Checklist
A beginner’s guide to web accessibility Landmarks ARIA Landmark Roles are helpful landmarks that can be used by AT to navigate a website. Note: When you validate html using landmark roles, you’ll receive a warning stating these roles are redundant. In HTML5, several of the landmark roles are implicit via the native structural element whichContinueContinue reading “Web Accessibility Checklist”
The Accessibility Difference Between Aria-hidden and role=”presentation”
In dealing with role=”presentation” and aria-hidden=”true” you may find that they both have deceptively similar functions when it relates to how they interact with assistive technology (screen readers). Before we dig into the difference between these two attributes we first need to learn a little bit about how accessibility in a Web browser works and this thing called: The Accessibility TreeContinueContinue reading “The Accessibility Difference Between Aria-hidden and role=”presentation””
Dev.Opera — Accessible Drag and Drop Using WAI-ARIA
This article is intended for people who create rich internet applications with drag and drop functionality and want to make them accessible. No prior knowledge of WAI-ARIA is assumed, although it is recommended you read my introduction to WAI-ARIA article before starting this article. A basic knowledge of scripting is assumed, and is necessary toContinueContinue reading “Dev.Opera — Accessible Drag and Drop Using WAI-ARIA”
Getting Started with Angular & Accessibility – YouTube
The basics of getting started with accessibility and AngularJS. Includes an introduction to ARIA, keyboard navigation, Angular’s ngAria module, and how thinking about accessibility can lead to better code and an improved user experience for all users. … Curated by (Lifekludger) Read full article at Source
Default Implicit ARIA semantics
The question of whether HTML elements need the addition of ARIA role attibutes to expose their semantics, is one that surfaces on a regular basis. The answer is maybe for a subset of elements, but increasingly no. … In some cases the semantics of a HTML element can be expressed by an ARIA role, stateContinueContinue reading “Default Implicit ARIA semantics”
The Visual ARIA Bookmarklet
Visual ARIA allows engineers, testers, educators, and students to physically observe ARIA usage within web technologies, including ARIA 1.1 structural, live region, and widget roles, proper nesting and focus management, plus requisite and optional supporting attributes to aid in development. … Curated by (Lifekludger) Read full article at Whatsock.com
The Accessibility Tree: A Training Guide for Advanced Web Development
Brilliant resource. At the top level, the first concept to understand is the platform Accessibility API, which is an integral part of each Operating System. This is MSAA/UIA/IAccessible2 on Windows, AT-SPI/IAccessible2 on Linux, the OS X Accessibility Protocol on Mac and iOS, and so on.It may not be obvious, but these top level accessibility APIsContinueContinue reading “The Accessibility Tree: A Training Guide for Advanced Web Development”
ARIA – WAI, WHY & WTF
Slideshow A framework for easily creating beautiful presentations using HTML … Curated by (Lifekludger) Read full article at Source: ARIA – WAI, WHY & WTF
Use Only One on a Page | Adrian Roselli
That’s it. That’s the meat of the post. The title covers it all. You don’t need to read any further. You are, of course, welcome to continue since I spent all this time writing it. Definition For those who aren’t familiar with , the element is intended to be a container for the primary contentContinueContinue reading “Use Only One on a Page | Adrian Roselli”
Notes on Using ARIA in HTML
2.1 First rule of ARIA use If you can use a native HTML element [HTML51] or attribute with the semantics and behaviour you require already built in, instead of re-purposing an element and adding an ARIA role, state or property to make it accessible, then do so. … Curated by (Lifekludger) Read full article atContinueContinue reading “Notes on Using ARIA in HTML”
HTML For Screen Readers – Labelling Elements
To screen readers, a lot of the visual information that is presented on a webpage is lost. Because of this, we need to specifically provide information to them that may be obvious to a person looking at the page. One common way people define information specifically for screen readers is to wrap the descriptive textContinueContinue reading “HTML For Screen Readers – Labelling Elements”
Léonie Watson: A quick & dirty introduction to ARIA – Front-end London – YouTube
An introduction to Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) 1.0. ARIA can be used to enhance the accessibility of content created with markup languages like HTML and SVG. With code examples and screen reader demonstrations, find out where ARIA fits into the web technology stack and how it helps improve cross-device accessibility. xx Source: Léonie Watson: AContinueContinue reading “Léonie Watson: A quick & dirty introduction to ARIA – Front-end London – YouTube”
Practical ARIA Examples
Some [9] practical ARIA examples to enhance your application accessibility (by @heydonworks). … curated by (Lifekludger) Read full article at Source: Practical ARIA Examples
Avoiding Redundancy with WAI-ARIA in HTML Pages
Life’s been easy since we’ve started integrating ARIA roles in HTML code. ARIA has been providing additional semantics to help assistive technologies (ATs) and making it possible for developers to enhance the usability of web applications for people with disabilities. The fundamental question remains to date — do HTML elements need ARIA role attributes toContinueContinue reading “Avoiding Redundancy with WAI-ARIA in HTML Pages”
Web applications and ARIA FAQ – Accessibility | MDN
WAI-ARIA is the Accessible Rich Internet Applications specification from the Web Accessibility Initiative at the W3C. ARIA provides a means to make web applications and widgets more accessible to a diverse range of users, including those who use assistive technologies such as screen readers or magnifiers. ARIA provides additional semantics to describe the role, state,ContinueContinue reading “Web applications and ARIA FAQ – Accessibility | MDN”
Getting started with ARIA – The Accessibility Project
ARIA (Assistive Rich Internet Applications), is a spec from the W3C and created to improve accessibility of applications by providing extra information to screen readers via HTML attributes. Out of the box, screen readers work with regular HTML, but adding ARIA can provide screen reader users with more context and greater interactivity with content. ARIAContinueContinue reading “Getting started with ARIA – The Accessibility Project”
Notes on Using ARIA in HTML
This document is a practical guide for developers on how to add accessibility information to HTML elements using the Accessible Rich Internet Applications specification [WAI-ARIA-1.1], which defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. This document demonstrates how to use WAI-ARIA in [HTML51], which especially helps withContinueContinue reading “Notes on Using ARIA in HTML”
