{"id":1166,"date":"2015-01-27T15:39:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T15:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virtualactivism.org\/education\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2015-01-27T15:52:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T15:52:49","slug":"aria-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualactivism.org\/education\/aria-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"aria roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Web accessibility is often overlooked in web design and development. Even when I teach it it seems I just gloss over it, explain what it is but do not demand it in final projects. It is an error that I will make sure to correct in the future.<\/p>\n<p>AIRA, which stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications and is adopted by the w3c. Currently we are in version 1.0. Aria roles are attributes to &#8216;role&#8217; that allows assistive technologies [such as screen readers] to make sense of the structure of a web page. It therefore helps people with disabilities to be able to &#8216;read&#8217; the web. As the w3c notes &#8220;Role information is used by assistive technologies, through interaction with the user agent, to provide normal processing of the specified element type.&#8221; In particular, when using SVG for example or some extensive widget and javascript, assistive technologies find it difficult to read the content except through roles.<\/p>\n<p>There are different types of roles, the most important and common of which are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/wai-aria\/roles#document_structure_roles\" target=\"_blank\">html5 structure roles . <\/a>Eg.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"role-reference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/wai-aria\/roles#article\"><code>article<\/code><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"role-reference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/wai-aria\/roles#columnheader\"><code>columnheader<\/code><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"role-reference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/wai-aria\/roles#definition\"><code>definition<\/code><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"role-reference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/wai-aria\/roles#directory\"><code>directory<\/code><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"role-reference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/wai-aria\/roles#document\"><code>document<\/code><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"role-reference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/wai-aria\/roles#group\"><code>group<\/code><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"role-reference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/wai-aria\/roles#heading\"><code>heading<\/code><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"role-reference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/wai-aria\/roles#img\"><code>img<\/code><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"role-reference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/wai-aria\/roles#list\"><code>list<\/code><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"role-reference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/wai-aria\/roles#listitem\"><code>listitem<\/code><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, there are the landmark roles which are regions of the page intended as navigational <a class=\"termref\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/wai-aria\/terms#def_landmark\">landmarks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"role-reference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/wai-aria\/roles#application\"><code>application<\/code><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"role-reference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/wai-aria\/roles#banner\"><code>banner<\/code><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"role-reference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/wai-aria\/roles#complementary\"><code>complementary<\/code><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"role-reference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/wai-aria\/roles#contentinfo\"><code>contentinfo<\/code><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"role-reference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/wai-aria\/roles#form\"><code>form<\/code><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"role-reference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/wai-aria\/roles#main\"><code>main<\/code><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"role-reference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/wai-aria\/roles#navigation\"><code>navigation<\/code><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"role-reference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/wai-aria\/roles#search\"><code>search<\/code><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following is a list of roles, their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/wai-aria\/roles#role_definitions\" target=\"_blank\">definitions and uses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to all of the above, there is also a website dedicated to web accessibility matters which is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/intro\/aria.php\" target=\"_blank\">Web Accessibility Initiative<\/a> which has valuable information about web accessibility and Arias.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web accessibility is often overlooked in web design and development. 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