Tag: WAI-ARIA

HTML5, ARIA Roles, and Screen Readers in May 2010

Note: Updated research and results for March 2011. There are some good, helpful examples and work out there already showing how some screen readers deal with various HTML5 constructs and ARIA roles. I know the specs are not finished yet and assistive technology vendors are always working on it, but I wanted to play around a bit and confirm for… Continue reading

ARIA alertdialog tests

the alertdialog examples below are not modal, nor do they leave the visual layout undisturbed, but this is not what is being tested, which is how NVDA and some other screen readers handle them NVDA tests performed with Firefox 3.6 JAWS tests performed with Internet Explorer 8 Update: A day or so after posting these test cases, NVDA fixed things… Continue reading