The slides from Hidde’s presentation at Paris Web—a great overview of using and misusing ARIA.
Hidde gives an in-depth explanation of the Accessibility Object Model, coming soon to browsers near you:
In a way, that’s a bit like what Service Workers do for the network and Houdini for style: give developers control over something that was previously done only by the browser.
On the need for a way to mark parts of a document as “inert” while the user is interacting with modal content.
Alice Bartlett shares her experience of getting aria-live regions to work in a meaningful way.
A great little jQuery script to automatically assign ARIA roles to HTML5 elements with the corresponding semantics.
There is a doctype for HTML4 + ARIA but "This DTD is made available only as a bridging solution for applications requiring DTD validation but not using HTML 5."
Trying to understand a different mindset to mine.
Why I get more excited about new CSS features and JavaScript APIs than I do about new frameworks, libraries, or build tools.
An email to the HTML working group.
Extending the semantics of HTML5 documents with some accessibility hooks.
Here’s how I interpret the top-level guidance in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.