Reading up on WAI-ARIA
(456 Berea Street)One of the more problematic areas of web accessibility is how to handle the custom widgets and dynamic changes to content used in most web applications and on many content-based websites.
Using JavaScript to add custom behaviour and update content can cause problems for people who rely on assistive technology (AT) such as screen readers. The problems often consist of the AT not being aware that content on the page has changed, the user not noticing that something has changed, or the user being aware that something changed but not what.
These problems can be tricky to solve, but there is hope in the form of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA). From the WAI-ARIA Overview:
WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite, defines a way to make...
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