Accessibility/WAI-ARIA 1.1
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Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1
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WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite, defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies.
Currently certain functionality used in Web sites is not available to some users with disabilities, especially people who rely on screen readers and people who cannot use a mouse. WAI-ARIA addresses these accessibility challenges, for example, by defining new ways for functionality to be provided to assistive technology.
With WAI-ARIA, developers can make advanced Web applications accessible and usable to people with disabilities.
Learn more
- Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1. W3C Candidate Recommendation, 27 October 2016
- WAI-ARIA Overview
- WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1, recommends approaches to help web application developers make widgets, navigation, and behaviors accessible using WAI-ARIA roles, states, and properties. It describes considerations that might not be evident to most authors from the WAI-ARIA specification which is oriented primarily at user agent implementers.