Abstract

Web 2.0, enabled by the AJAX architecture, and has given rise to new levels of user interaction with Web pages. Many of these new extremely popular Web 2.0 pages are better classified as full-fledged applications; for example, Google Maps, Google Docs, Flickr, and so on. Unfortunately, accessibility support in most AJAX applications is lacking. WAI-ARIA markup presents a solution to making these applications accessible. This paper presents a real-life example of how ARIA Live Regions can greatly improve the accessibility of a Web 2.0 chat application (ReefChat) when used with a WAI-ARIA aware assistive technology (Fire Vox).

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