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How do web developers use WAI-ARIA?

April 26, 2017developers wai-aria web

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How do web developers use WAI-ARIA?

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JavaScript is how industry is developing compelling Web 2.0 applications today, and these applications often need to be made accessible. ARIA provides a mechanism for describing the JavaScript widgets and could be useful in many current development situations. A couple of examples are: • A web developer or team has developed one or more JavaScript widgets, and accessibility is part of the project requirements. The team can use the ARIA properties to provide the basic type, state and changes of their JavaScript widgets. They use available documentation and examples on the web and test the results for screen readers and other assistive technologies using free testing tools. If the team needs help, they sign up for the wai-xtech mailing list and ask questions there. • A web developer uses widgets from an existing JavaScript toolkit, and needs his or her web application to be accessible. If the toolkit already has ARIA support built in, the author can simply use the accessible JavaScript t