Who supports ARIA?
This much is public information: • W3C PF: standardization effort: Roadmap, Roles and States • IBM — Firefox implementation, Dojo toolkit support, testing tools, supporting standardization effort, test cases and docs • University of Toronto — Dojo toolkit support • Dojo Foundation — Dojo toolkit support • University of Illinois — test cases, Firefox accessibility extension testing tool, developer training, supporting standardization effort • Mozilla Foundation — grants to developers for ARIA work • 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 — de
This much is public information: • W3C PF: standardization effort: Roadmap, Roles and States • 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
