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Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA)

April 29, 2008 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment

Thanks to John Resig, I just heard about WAI-ARIA, which, "defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies" (WAI-ARIA Overview).

At the moment, I don't know anything about ARIA, but, according to John, it's currently implemented in Firefox 2 and will be supported to a greater degree in Firefox 3. I was also impressed to learn that the Google Reader team has recently added full ARIA support to their application.

So it seems that learning about ARIA is the thing to do and I intend to speak about my findings at the June meeting of the New York Web Standards meetup group.

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