[nvda] Re: How to use Google Reader with NVDA

I agreer, let's hope that web designers put access up there on the to do list. 
B.H.


On 11/6/2009 4:57 café, Geoff Shang wrote:

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Brian Gaff Lineone downstairs wrote:


I'm still not convinced that areas make much sense. To me keeping
things on different pages makes more logical sense. Otherwise you
might as well make every web site on just one big page.


uh. I think you missunderstand what is being discussed here.

What people are talking about here is ARIA (A R I A), which stands for
Accessible Rich Internet Applications. I'm not very up on this, but my
understanding is that the web is moving towards online applications
embedded in web pages, at least for some things. We've already been
grappling wiht pages using Ajax and Flash, with limited if any
accessibility. As I understand it, ARIA is an attempt to provide the
ability to provide such applications in an accessible, standardised way.

It may interest you to know that NVDA is one of the leaders in ARIA
support in screen readers, thanks to work done under the various Mozilla
grants.

My view is that ultimately ARIA will be good for us, as it should mean
that we will have access to these applets rather than be fumbling around
with inaccessible buttons etc. But it's going to take a little while for
screen readers, browsers and web content authors to get everyting
straightened out so that it all works as it should.

Geoff.

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