Posts Tagged ‘accessibility’
Improving Accessibility Through ARIA
Accessibility is a pretty hairy issue in web development. When attempting to determine if your site is accessible, there are so many standards and recommendations to follow. 508, WCAG, WCAG 2.0, WAI Priority 1, 2 & 3. Well, now there is a new standard from the W3C called WAI-ARIA (Web Accessibility Initiative - Accessible Rich Internet Applications) The simplest definition of ARIA is adding UI semantics via HTML element attributes. Simply, you add things like '<div role="navigation">' or '<form role="search">' to specific HTML elements to give screen readers a better understanding of your content. The ARIA spec is huge (160 pages), ... Read More »
