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Who Supports WAI-ARIA
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- W3C -- The Protocols and Formats Working Group owns the specification and standardization effort
- IBM -- Firefox implementation, Dojo toolkit support, testing tools, supporting standardization effort, test cases and docs. Testing tools being developed and contributed to the Eclipse Foundation. Dojo is being incorporated in numerous IBM products including many under the WebSphere brand.
- Dojo Foundation in conjunction with the University of Toronto -- the Dojo 1.0 toolkit now has full ARIA support for the core Dojox widget set
- JQuery Community -- work has begun. Communication happens on the jQuery-a11y google group created by the jQuery leads.
- The University of Toronto -- they have received a grant which includes supporting ARIA developers in both browsers and toolkits such as JQuery
- University of Illinois -- test cases, Firefox accessibility extension testing tool, developer training, supporting standardization effort
- Mozilla Foundation -- grants to developers for ARIA work
- NV Access -- have a grant to polish Mozilla support in the NVDA screen reader. This will include support for ARIA.
- Opera -- beginning support in Kestrel (Opera 9.5), supporting standardization effort
- Sun Microsystems -- Orca screen reader support, contributor to style guide group
- Freedom Scientific -- JAWS screen reader support
- GW Micro -- Window-Eyes screen reader support
- AI Squared -- ZoomText screen magnifier support
- CLC World -- Fire Vox screen reader extension implementation of ARIA widgets and live regions, live region test cases, live region report and recommendations
- Google -- GMail!, including chat support! ARIA support in Google Reader and experimental support in Google Notebook. Developing the AxsJAX framework which can "inject accessibility enhancements into existing Web 2.0 applications using any of several standard Web techniques.". Google Web Toolkit (GWT) has ARIA support -- at this time it is unknown how solid the support is. Working on accessibility and ARIA support in Google Chrome.
- Paciello Group -- developing support in some pages, assisting with Best Practices document, articles, such as WAI-ARIA in HTML and WAI-ARIA live regions
- Yahoo! -- several ARIA articles and some support in the free YUI JavaScript library. ARIA support in classic http://mail.yahoo.com. ARIA landmarks in http://news.yahoo.com. Also financially supporting ARIA support in the NVDA screen reader (along with Mozilla).
- Adobe -- Adobe is working to add WAI-ARIA support to the Spry Framework for Ajax which will add support for Dreamweaver in the future.
- AOL -- work on style guide and best practices
- SAP -- developing support in SAP applications, supporting standardization effort
- Microsoft -- supporting standardization effort, IE 5+ supports ARIA keyboard navigation (via the same tabindex extensions contained in HTML 5). IE 8 (starting with beta 1) will include ARIA support.
- IWA -- International Webmaster Association, endorses ARIA and will promote it in education and outreach activities
- The Web Compliance Center of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT -- WebCC supports ARIA by participating in its development within W3C and introducing its requirements in our sets of imergo® Web Compliance tools.
- Apple -- Some ARIA implementation already in Safari and Voiceover.
- access.see.be - Javascript toolkit with ARIA support. Feel free to give your feedback on the project´s website or in the "Free ARIA"-Google Group
Which JS toolkits still need "encouragement" from the community?
