Where It's AT – Assistive Technology Blog

AT in the news for the week of 3/17 thru 3/21. I’m watching this app in development at UMass to help blind travelers navigate the Boston transit system The New Frontier in Accessible Transportation Tobii Leads With Eye-Tracking Aquatics and Robotics: Unique Exercise Options for Individuals with Spinal Cord Dysfunction ICYMI, Android Wear: Zen and […]

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ARIA Components Difficulty: Advanced Category: Structure The core components of ARIA are roles, states, and properties. The dozens of attributes and role values possible in ARIA provide significantly enhanced semantics and accessibility detail over HTML alone. Basic ARIA attributes such as landmark roles, various roles to define the function of non-standard interactive elements (e.g., sliders, […]

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Save the Date! Join the Conversation to Advance Accessibility and Inclusion in Social Media Submit ideas to help improve the user experience for people with disabilities March 17 – April 4, 2014 Do you use social media as part of your daily life? Do you have ideas on how social media can be made more […]

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ARIA Difficulty: Advanced Category: Structure While support for ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) is not perfect, implementing it can never make a web application less accessible. While native accessibility should be implemented to the extent possible in HTML, ARIA allows enhanced semantics and accessibility that is not possible with HTML alone. Much of ARIA will […]

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Pros and Cons of iOS 7.1 Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP Yesterday, Apple released iOS 7.1 for all modern iOS devices.  There are many great accessibility and performance enhancements, as well as at least one known potential show-stopper. First of all there are many new changes to the user interface for low […]

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Noscript and Progressive Enhancement Difficulty: Advanced Category: Presentation The noscript element provides a fall-back for when JavaScipt is not enabled or supported. Because most screen readers and other assistive technologies support JavaScript, and because users of these technologies are generally no more likely to have JavaScript disabled, the use of noscript is not really an […]

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