Courses

Introduction to ARIA Specification and Practices

Jon Gunderson, Ph.D.

Division of Disability Resources and Educational Services

College of Applied Health Sciences

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

jongund@illinois.edu

Slides

  1. Goals
  2. The Problem of Custom Widgets
  3. ARIA Contract with Browsers and Assistive Technologies
  4. Purpose of ARIA is Describe Semantics and Behavior
  5. Accessibility APIs and Browsers
  6. Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) 1.1
  7. HTML Living Standard
  8. HTML: main element
  9. HTML Accessibility API Mappings: roles and role restrictions
  10. Core Accessibility API Mappings for ARIA
  11. Accessible Name and Description Computation
  12. Summary of W3C Documents
  13. Tabindex and Keyboard Focus
  14. Accessible Name Calculation
  15. Accessible Description Calculation
  16. Other Descriptions: aria-details property
  17. Other Description: aria-invalid and aria-errormessage properties
  18. Checkbox Example: Overview
  19. Checkbox Example: Inaccessible
  20. Basic Screen Reader Commands
  21. Checkbox Example: Responding to the keyboard
  22. Checkbox Example: Adding ARIA role, checked state and accessible name
  23. Checkbox Example: Keyboard Focus and hover styling
  24. Checkbox Example: Synchronization of ARIA and visual states
  25. Checkbox Example: Summary of Accessibility Features
  26. Menu Button: ARIA Design Pattern
  27. Menu Button: Overview
  28. Menu Button: Inaccessible
  29. Menu Button: Keyboard Support
  30. Menu Button: Add ARIA roles, properties and states
  31. Menu Button: Keyboard Focus Styling
  32. Menu Button: High Contrast Support
  33. Navigation Links: Disclosure Pattern
  34. Using ARIA in HTML (Best Practices)
  35. None/Presentation Role
  36. Hiding Content Techniques
  37. Live Region Roles
  38. Live Region Attributes
  39. ARIA Authoring Practices 1.2
  40. ARIA Assistive Technology (AT) Community Group
  41. Open Source Tools
  42. Functional Accessibility Evaluator (FAE) 2.0
  43. AInspector Sidebar for Firefox
  44. Bookmarklets for Visualizing Accessibility Features
  45. Questions and Discussion