Javascript and Accessibility

Question

As a web developer, a number of the projects I work on fall under government umbrellas and hence are subject to 508 Accessibility laws, and sometimes W3C accessibility guideline

Answer 1

See

• http://juicystudio.com/article/making-ajax-work-with-screen-readers.php
• http://juicystudio.com/article/improving-ajax-applications-for-jaws-users.php
• http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=15
• http://www-03.ibm.com/able/resources/ajaxaccessibility.html

You might also take a look at FlashAid, although it is far from a perfect solution. (But, if you used progressive enhancement and only used AJAX when Flash was present and the user wasn't using the accessibility API, you might have a reasonable solution... for Windows.)

In the long run WAI-ARIA is the solution. It is somewhat supported in JAWS 10 (beta) and Firevox, but it certainly isn't sufficient for all of today's users.