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

At one time we had a thing called the telegraph, through which you could receive things called telegrams, which were static documents. Then there were teleprinters which could give you live news results. ARIA is more like the teleprinter. I'm being deliberately quaint here to illustrate that we've been here before, and I can only see ARIA as a potentially good thing. 

Vince.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Shang" <geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Subject: [nvda] Re: How to use Google Reader with NVDA




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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