User testing WAI-ARIA enabled web applications
Monday, 07 September 2009
Joshue O Connor has been invited by the Web Accessibility Initiative to give a presentation on WAI-ARIA at the upcoming Techshare pre-conference workshop.
Entitled “Web Applications Enabled with WCAG2 and WAI-ARIA” the workshop aims to provide training for developers who want to learn more about creating accessible Web applications. It introduces the key concepts of Web accessibility standards including W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and WAI-ARIA - Accessible Rich Internet Applications, to demonstrate how these can be implemented in practice to provide accessible and usable Web sites and applications.
The workshop includes contributions from different speakers including Michael Cooper - W3C/WAI, Steve Faulkner – TPG, Andrew Ronksley - RNIB, and Artur Ortega – Yahoo! and provides an opportunity for questions and engaging discussions.
Josh’s presentation will be entitled “Usability and WAI-ARIA" and aims to examine the usability of web applications that use WAI-ARIA as it becomes an increasingly accepted feature of the developer landscape. How will users of Assistive Technology respond to these changes? Will they have to learn more complex ways of navigation or different modes of interaction?
This presentation hopes to demonstrate the importance of user testing WAI-ARIA enabled applications to ensure that the reality lives up to the promise.