2009-02-24: The Protocols and Formats Working Group published the Last Call Working Draft of
Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA). WAI-ARIA defines a way to make Web content
and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with
dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript,
and related technologies.
The Working Group also published a First Public Working Draft of the WAI-ARIA User Agent
Implementation Guide that provides guidance on how browsers and other user agents should
expose WAI-ARIA features to platform accessibility APIs. The updated Working Draft of WAI-ARIA
Best Practices that was published today describes how Web content developers can develop
accessible rich Web applications using WAI-ARIA. These WAI-ARIA documents are described
in the WAI-ARIA Overview. Read details in the review announcement, and about the Web
Accessibility Initiative (WAI). (Permalink)