Re: Slides of my WAI-ARIA presentation at SpainJS event

Hi Chaals,

>I think pretty much all browsers allow activating click events with the
keyboard, and will add things if you give them a tabindex. So adding
specific keyboard >handling is probably redundant if you're just using
click (mouseover, focus, and various other things are still not so good).

I think you are right, but need to take into account keyboard behaviour for
things like buttons, which require activation on space key press as well as
enter key

see
http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2011/04/html5-accessibility-chops-just-use-a-button/for
more details.

regards
Steve

On 9 July 2012 11:47, Chaals McCathieNevile <w3b@chaals.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 22:29:30 +0200, Ramón Corominas <
> listas@ramoncorominas.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi all, and apologies for cross-posting.
>>
>> Last Saturday I gave a presentation in the SpainJS event about creating
>> accessible apps using WAI-ARIA. The idea was to show JS developers that
>> accessibility is an essential component to achieve quality coding, and the
>> potential of ARIA to create more accessible apps.
>>
>> I've uploaded the slides here:
>> http://ramoncorominas.com/**spainjs/ <http://ramoncorominas.com/spainjs/>
>>
>
> Nice :)
>
>
>  Comments, suggestions or corrections are welcome (smile)
>>
>
> I think pretty much all browsers allow activating click events with the
> keyboard, and will add things if you give them a tabindex. So adding
> specific keyboard handling is probably redundant if you're just using click
> (mouseover, focus, and various other things are still not so good).
>
> I'd be interested in learning if that is not the case...
>
> cheers
>
> Chaals
>
> --
> Chaals - standards declaimer
>
>


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