Elsewhere Archive

Wordpress and ARIA
Wordpress has introduced aria-required="true" for required fields in the comments section.
The Zac Browser
A granddad builds a Web browser for his autistic grandson, Zac.
WAI-ARIA - It's Easy
Steve Faulkner has made his slides available from his presentation at @media 2008 about WAI-ARIA.
WAI-ARIA Editors' Drafts
The WAI-ARIA Editors' drafts are now publicly available for anyone to follow progress.
ARIA Slider, Part 1
Hans Hillen describes ARIA's slider role.
Will I be able to surf when I'm seventy?
Henny's overview of the WAI-AGE project.
Ajax Accessibility (Live Regions)
John Resig of JQuery gives an overview of ARIA's Live Regions.
@alt and the Flickr Defense
An explanation of why the Flickr defence is bogus on numerous accounts.
Using Flash to Detect Screen Readers
Steve Faulkner talks about responsible usage of Flash's Accessibility.isActive.
GWT 1.5 Milestone 2 available
Google Widget Toolkit (GWT) 1.5 announces ARIA support for better accessibility.
The Notorious CSS?
Henny has discovered a standards compliant rapper!
Captioning Sucks
But Joe Clark's open & closed project aims to address that by defining standards for captioning.
Understanding How JAWS Reads Text
Steve Faulkner redresses some of the misinformation about how screen readers work.
Microsoft Accessibility Labs
Microsoft have released two new accessibility testing tools; UI Accessibility Checker (AccChecker) and UI Automation Verify (UIA Verify).
DHTML Style Guide
Best practice keystrokes for popular widgets.
Microsoft Expands Support for Web Standards
Microsoft reverse their decision to make developers opt-in to standard compliance mode, and make standards compliance the default mode with IE8.
Screen Readers Lack Emphasis
An article about support for elements such as strong, and em in JAWS and Window-Eyes.
Empty Links and Screen Readers
Mike Davies investigates how popular screen readers handle links without link text to assist the Microformats group create an accessible include pattern.
Introducing WAVE 4.0
WebAIM announce a beta version of their web accessibility evaluation tool, WAVE 4.0.
HTML 5 Draft
The HTML 5 working group release their first draft.