Newsgroup Summary: mozilla.dev.accessibility - Pre October 06, 2006

Summary: mozilla.dev.accessibility - to October 6, 2006

mozilla.dev.accessibility

Authored by Sherman Fernandes, Dean Woodside

Announcements

• Legal Precedent Set for Web Accessibility

  US Federal court rules that retailers may be sued if its website is inaccsessible. Read more...

Discussions

• W3C Sets Road Map for Web App Accessibility

  The W3C introduced its WAI-ARIA (Web Accessibility Initiative for Accessible Rich Internet Applications) roadmap--a set of guidelines for developers to make accessible web content. This set of documents tackles some of the difficulties that AJAX has been causing with regards to accessibility. Read more...

  Other links of interest:

  Roadmap for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA Roadmap)

  Roles for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA Roles)

  States and Properties Module for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA States and Properties)

  Making Ajax Work with Screen Readers

Meetings

• Accessibility Hackfest 2006 - October 10-12 in Cambridge, MA (more details)

  Participants include the Mozilla Foundation, IBM, Sun and Novell to name a few.