[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 12132] New: Implement ARIA to enable dynamic web appliations

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12132

           Summary: Implement ARIA to enable dynamic web appliations
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 420+ (nightly)
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Mac OS X 10.4
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Accessibility
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: aaronleventhal at moonset.net


The Protocols and Formats Working Group has been updateding Public Working 
Drafts of the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) suite. The
Roadmap describes accessibility of interactive Web content using rich
technologies such as AJAX and DHTML. WAI-ARIA Roles provides a dictionary of
kinds of page features that are important to user interaction, and WAI-ARIA
States and Properties enables XML languages to express critical information
about how these page features relate to one another. These are introduced in
the WAI-ARIA Suite Overview:
    http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria

Basically, in combination with the tabindex fixes recommended in bug 7138, this
allows for rich web applications to be developed with accessible tree views,
menubars, tab panels, grids, sliders and other advanced widgets.
This has been implemented in Mozilla since Firefox 1.5 See
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Accessible_DHTML

Other major vendors will be supporting this technology.


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