Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

One of the new features claimed by Safari 4 is WAI ARIA support and better VoiceOver integration. I thought I’d put the public beta to the test with a few of the examples and test cases listed on the WAI ARIA best practices article and Codetalks wiki. There’s nothing particularly scientific or methodical about this, it was done more for curiosity than anything, but it provides a snapshot of what works, and doesn’t, at this stage and I thought other people might be interested.

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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Thanks to everybody who came along to the inaugural Multipack Presents. My slides of ARIA are below.

Thanks to my fellow presenters Bruce and Stuart for entertaining talks on HTML 5 and Javascript! And to Campaign Monitor for the sponsorship (great pizza)!

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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

On the 21st of February at the offices of One Black Bear, I’ll be part of Multipack Presents.

Along with Bruce and Stuart, I’ll be talking about emerging standards. In my case it’ll be WAI ARIA, emerging techniques for improving the accessibility of Javascript-based Rich Internet Applications.

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