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Category Archives: landmark roles
HTML5 Accessibility Chops: ARIA landmark support
The ARIA landmark roles can be used in HTML5 to markup regions of a page. Landmark roles add a new means to navigate page content for users of supporting assistive technology. They can be used on semantically neutral elements such … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Assistive Technology, Firefox, HTML5, Internet Explorer, iPad, iPhone, JAWS, landmark roles, NVDA, Screen Readers, VoiceOver, WAI-ARIA
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HTML5 Accessibility Chops: section elements
HTML5 introduces new section elements. The new elements include header, footer, section, article, nav and aside. What is the accessibility potential of these new elements for users of assistive technology such as screen readers?
Posted in Assistive Technology, HTML, HTML 5, HTML5, JAWS, landmark roles, NVDA, VoiceOver, W3C, Web Accessibility
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Using WAI ARIA Landmark Roles – updated
Refer to Using WAI-ARIA Landmarks – 2013 Ukranian translation of Using WAI-ARIA Landmarks 2011 by Vlad Brown.
Posted in HTML, HTML 5, iPhone, JAWS, landmark roles, NVDA, Safari, Screen Readers, Standards, VoiceOver, W3C, WAI-ARIA, Web Accessibility, Window Eyes, WordPress, Zoomtext
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Apple Webkit Gets Serious About WAI-ARIA (on Mac)
A check of the support for WAI-ARIA roles in the latest Webkit Nightly builds, reveals a major improvement for WAI-ARIA role support on the Mac version of Webkit (an open source web browser engine), but the Windows version shows little … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibility, Apple, Assistive Technology, General, HTML 5, landmark roles, MSAA, open source, Safari, VoiceOver, W3C, WAI-ARIA, Web Accessibility
Tagged webkit
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How Can I Validate (X)HTML + ARIA?
An issue with the use of WAI-ARIA in HTML documents is that they don’t validate. When you run a HTML document containing ARIA attributes through the W3C Validator it shows errors in the results for any ARIA attributes. More importantly … Continue reading
Posted in accessibility testing, HTML, HTML 5, landmark roles, Standards, tools, W3C, W3C Validator, WAI-ARIA, Web Accessibility
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