Last week at CSUN I spent a large proportion of my time focusing on sessions and workshops that looked at JavaScript, screen readers and Web 2.0. Overall it was an interesting week with some great presenters one of which was Steve Faulkner from the Paciello Group who ran a one day workshop on “Screen readers and JavaScript”.
Originally scheduled to co-present with Gez Lemon, also of the Paciello Group, Steve found himself presenting solo for the first half of the day after Gez’s plane got cancelled due to blizzards. Charles Chen, the man behind Firevox, stepped up to the table mid afternoon to do a session on AJAX, live regions and accessibility as well as demo Firevox and it’s capabilities. Firevox is an open source suite of extensions for Firefox that make Firefox into a talking browser for the visually impaired.
Steve’s presentations
Charles Chen - WAI ARIA
Other resources
Further useful resources focusing on JavaScript and how it can, or can’t, work with screen readers can be found at:
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Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI ARIA): WAI-ARIA defines how to make more advanced features of dynamic content and rich Internet applications accessible to people with disabilities. A primary focus of WAI-ARIA is providing information about user interface controls—such as expanding navigation bars—to assistive technology.
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The JavaScript Dojo: Dojo is an Open Source DHTML toolkit written in JavaScript. Dojo aims to solve some long-standing historical problems with DHTML which prevented mass adoption of dynamic web application development.
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