Posted by cliff on April 24, 2010 at 6:51pm
Not much to say here, but perhaps this would be a good place to hash out what we know and need to know about doing accessibility tests on ARIA-based interfaces. It's a real challenge.
A good place for background information is Jared Smith's presentation at the November 2009 Accessing Higher Ground Conference, Accessibility of Rich Internet Applications.
Categories: accessibility aria jquery, accessibility evaluation, aria, usability
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Hard work
Hey Cliff,
What I can say is that it is hard work to test ARIA interfaces, or accessible web-apps, for accessibility. Primarily this s because, due to the draft nature of ARIA 1.0, and it's inconsistent implementation by browser and AT vendors, there is a lot of testing to be done.
A couple of thoughts.
Decide upon the supported browsers and ATs. This narrows the testing.
Test components and interfaces. I can't stress enough that along with testing UIs we should start by testing UI components. If a UI component (toggle button, dialog, inline edit) is working properly, then it will * likely * continue to work properly when implemented as part of a UI.
See the ARIA test cases and examples on the CodeTalks wiki at http://wiki.codetalks.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
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