[Nfb-web] ARIA Elements in CSS

[Michael Hansen]

Great podcast. Here is the direct link

http://podcast.freedomscientific.com/FSCast/episodes/fscast026-january2009.mp3
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Mike Hansen



On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Arnold Bailey <arnoldbail at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Very informative podcast. I'll look into aria for future pages. Thanks for
> sharing this.
>
> Arnold
>
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Peter Donahue <pdonahue1 at sbcglobal.net>wrote:
>
>>
>> Good afternoon everyone,
>>
>>    This month's FS Cast discussed the use of ARIA, a methodology used to
>> improve the accessibility of Rich Internet Applications, (RIAS.) ARIA is an
>> acronym for Accessible Rich Internet Applications. If you visited
>> www.bookshare.org since it was relaunched earlier this week you'll know
>> that
>> they've enhanced their site navigation by implementing ARIA on that site.
>> I'm all ready playing with the "Role" element and tested it on an affiliate
>> site template and was pleased with the results. I'mcurious to know if
>> anyone
>> has examples of how to include ARIA definitions on a CSS. From what I've
>> seen thus far some pseudoclasses would need to be created to designate page
>> landmarks as has been done on the new Bookshare Web Site.
>>
>>    ARIA has other attributes that can be used to enhance the accessibility
>> of Web sites and applications that are quite exciting. Let me encourage
>> everyone to listen to FS Cast 26; even if you're not a JAWS User. The
>> information about ARIA and Web 2.0. You can hear or download the podcast
>> at:
>> http://www.freedomscientific.com
>>
>>  This information will be very useful in the future as the Web changes and
>> accessibiliyty eveolves to address these needs.
>>
>> Peter Donahue
>>
>>
>>
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