Understanding ARIA 1.2 and the ARIA Authoring Practices Workshop

The 5th Annual ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium

October 14th and 15th, Online

Agenda

Time	Description	References
Wednesday, October 14th, 1:30pm-3:00pm Eastern Standard Time (US)	ARIA Introduction	WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.2 (editor's draft) Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1 (Recommendation) Accessible Name and Description Computation 1.1 (Recommendation) Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.1 (Recommendation)
On your own between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning	Go through each of the pages to observe the changes in accessibility for both screen reader, keyboard and high contrast support for the ARIA 101: Checkbox Example pages: Inaccessible custom checkbox Part 1: Adding keyboard support Part 2: Adding ARIA roles, properties and states Part 3: Keyboard focus styling Part 4: Synchronizing visual and aria states Review the ARIA authoring practices for the checkbox design pattern and reflect on the following questions: How easy it to use the ARIA Authoring Practices to understand features of a custom checkbox? How could the ARIA Authoring Practices been more helpful to you?	ARIA Authoring Practices checkbox design pattern. Screen readers and display options: NVDA screen reader (Open source so can be freely used, please consider supporting). JAWS screen reader (40 minute demo mode without license). Voice over screen reader (Built-in to every Mac, iPhone and iPad) High contrast settings is Windows 10. Invert color settings in MacOS, use preferences to increase contrast.
On your own between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning	Go through each of the pages to observe the changes in accessibility for both screen reader, keyboard and high contrast support for the navigation menu example pages: Menu Button: Inaccessible Menu Button: Keyboard support Menu Button: Keyboard and ARIA support Menu Button: Keyboard, ARIA and focus styling support Menu Button: Keyboard, ARIA and high contrast support Review the ARIA authoring practices for the menu button design pattern and reflect on the following questions: How easy it to use the ARIA Authoring Practices to understand features of the menu button design pattern? How could the ARIA Authoring Practices been more helpful to you?	ARIA Authoring Practices navigation menu button design pattern. See screen reader and display options for checkbox examples.
Thursday, October 15th, 3:00pm-4:30pm Eastern Standard Time (US)	Review Examples, more on ARIA and ARIA 1.2	WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.2 (editor's draft) Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1 (Recommendation) Accessible Name and Description Computation 1.1 (Recommendation) Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.1 (Recommendation)