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Can JavaScript widgets be made accessible? What about live AJAX regions and other Web 2.0 wizardry?

Yes, via a new standard from W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative. The Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) specification provides a way to pepper page markup with the additional accessibility information needed by users of assistive technologies such as screen readers.

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Contents 1 New to ARIA? Start Here 2 WAI-ARIA FAQ 3 List of ARIA Resources 4 Techniques 5 Validation and Testing 6 Assistive Technology 7 Media 8 Projects

New to ARIA? Start Here

WAI-ARIA FAQ

List of ARIA Resources

Techniques

• How to create accessible JavaScript widgets
• How to create keyboard navigable JS widgets
• How to use ARIA Live Regions for dynamic content
• How to enhancing HTML forms with aria-labelledby and aria-describedby
• How to improving HTML forms with aria-invalid and role alert
• How to mark HTML form fields as required with aria-required

Validation and Testing

• Set of ARIA Test Cases

Assistive Technology

• JAWS treatment of ARIA
• Who_Supports_WAI-ARIA
• Firebug Accessibility Extension

Media

• ARIA Video Project Home Page
• Video tutorials

Projects

• Repository_Tools
• Experimental HTML 4.01 +ARIA and XHTML 1.0 + ARIA DTDs