This page is for documenting and planning non-widget specific accessibility recommendations and resources. You can find widget-specific recommendations on each widget's page.

Related event: ARIA Hackathon

Support

We have some limitations in what assistive technologies (AT), e.g. screenreaders, we can actively support. In that regard, this is what we support and test with:

• support latest NVDA on latest Firefox
• test against latest NVDA, VoiceOver, JAWS
• we'll accept patches for other/older AT if:
• the code is maintainable/not super hacky
• relatively small file size
• doesn't break proper ARIA for conforming AT 

Resources

Here's a list of resources for ARIA and related documents, reference implementations and surveys in no particular order:

ARIA specification and related documents:

• Overview of ARIA documents: http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria.php#is
• Sending Feedback: http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/comments/instructions  
• Overview of html5/accessibility implementations status: http://www.html5accessibility.com/ 

ARIA example:

• http://oaa-accessibility.org/examples/  
• http://examples.furtherahead.com (note: these are Derek's demos at presentations not final products but I like these examples for their practicality) 
• http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/category/wai-aria/ 

Testing ARIA tools:

• Windows-specific: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/seealso/archive/2010/07/22/where-did-the-accessibility-tools-go.aspx
• AccProbe: http://accessibility.linuxfoundation.org/a11yweb/util/accprobe/ 
• UIA Verify: http://uiautomationverify.codeplex.com/
• aViewer: http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2010/06/aviewer-beta/
• http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2012/05/aviewer-2012-alpha/
• Guides for using the tools: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Browser+Accessibility+Inspection+Tools 
• Web Accessibility Checked (kinda like HTML Validator): http://achecker.ca/checker/index.php
• http://www.marcozehe.de/articles/how-to-use-nvda-and-firefox-to-test-your-web-pages-for-accessibility/ 
• Worldspace FireEyes  http://www.deque.com/products/worldspace-fireeyes

Others:

• Access Key Companion: http://juicystudio.com/article/access-key-companion.php 
• Screenreader User Survey: http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey3/#primary 

Open Issues 

Configurable keyboard shortcuts, tbd.