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As browser capabilities continue to grow the websites that we are building are getting ever more complex. Fancy JavaScript UIs are great for showing off the latest technologies but they can cause a real problem for assistive technologies like screen readers. Unfortunately accessibility is one of those topics that often gets overlooked by a lot of developers. This makes me a little sad. If we want the web to remain a place that can be enjoyed by everyone, we need to be considering our users at both ends of the spectrum. In this article my aim is to show you just how easy it is to make your websites accessible.

"The WAI-ARIA specification provides an ontology of roles, states, and properties that define accessible user interface elements and can be used to improve the accessibility and interoperability of web content and applications."

A detailed accessibility testing tool, providing information about which elements fail, and the recommended practices.

Create a page like normal, then use a JS library to read the fully qualified data from the page into json variables for use in the JS application. Crawl-able, accessible content. http://foolip.org/microdatajs/live/ http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html#json https://gitorious.org/microdatajs/ http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html#microdata-dom-api

How to write a great web link