[jaws-uk] Re: Landmarks
- From: "Phil Medway" <philmedway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 12:21:24 +0100
Hi Robin,
It's both in a way.
A development known as ARIA, which is a sort of accessibility extension to
mark-up languages, is gradually creeping in to web pages and is being made
useful to us by incorporation of its benefits in to browsers and screen
readers.
ARIA stands for Accessible rich internet applications.
Jaws10 recognises a number of its features and IE8 and to some extent IE7
recognise ARIA.
Landmarks seem to be the most used at present but there is a set of other
accessibility issues which ARIA could be used to resolve.
See the link below for more detail:
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/
Regards,
Phil Medway.
E-mail: philmedway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tel: 01869 347639
Mobile: 07980 519990
Skype: philmedway
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Clayden" <r.clayden@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 11:40 AM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Landmarks
Hi all,
Noticing on a few websites that jaws is now reading landmarks. I think I
might be sticking my head above the parapet here and going to get
blasted, but is this a new feature in jfw, or a new feature in website
html coding?
I see it on my BT Yahoo account page when I go to look at my webmail
online. On jfw 10, IE7.
Kind regards,
Robin Clayden, Telecoms
Edinburgh College of Art,
74 Lauriston Place,
EDINBURGH EH3 9DF.
T: +44 0 131 221 6000
E: r.clayden@xxxxxxxxx
W: http://www.eca.ac.uk
Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number
SC009201
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