WAI-ARIA for Accessible Rich Web Applications: Working Drafts

The Protocols and Formats Working Group published updated Working Drafts of the WAI-ARIA Roadmap, WAI-ARIA Roles, and WAI-ARIA States and Properties. The WAI-ARIA Suite of documents addresses the accessibility to people with disabilities of dynamic Web content built with Ajax and DHTML. WAI-ARIA includes technologies to map controls, Ajax live regions, and events to accessibility APIs, including custom controls used for rich Internet applications. It also describes new navigation techniques to mark common Web structures as menus, primary content, secondary content, banner information and other types of Web structures. Implementation of WAI-ARIA in languages such as HTML 4, HTML 5 and XHTML is in active development. Read the WAI-ARIA Overview and about the Web Accessibility Initiative.