Podcast #63: Reviewing Accessible Ajax Recommendations

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DATE : Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:55:04 -0500
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In Webcredible's article AJAX accessibility for websites, a list of recommendations is presented for creating accessible Ajax web pages. In this podcast, Dennis and Ross discuss the accessibility issues and benefits of Ajax, and the recommendations from Webcredible which are:

• Inform users early in the page that dynamic updates will occur
• Highlight the areas that have been updated
• Don't change the focus
• Offer the option to disable automatic updates
• Ensure the site works if JavaScript isn't enabled

News & Events

• Refresh Detroit meeting April 23 (demo night)
  
• Accessible Online Learning
• Accessible Data Visualization with Web Standards
• Guide to semantic use of HTML elements / Why use semantic XHTML
  
• Everything I know about accessibility I learned from Star Wars (MP3) (Derek Featherstone at SXSW)

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