Several questions about ARIA status

Any thoughts?

Hi Everyone--

I'm putting together a presentation for Thursday morning so I hope you
can clarify a couple of things for me.

1. There are a number of roles that don't map yet to MSAA. What will
happen to them? Will MSAA have to create new roles for them?
2. Will screen readers continue to use the MSAA API for awhile or will
they switch over to the new Microsoft accessibility API? Will it be
backward compatible?
3. Have the screen reader vendors and browser developers put out
roadmaps for their adoption of the ARIA roles? I've seen the Paciello
Group list of current support, which is very helpful, but I wonder
what's to come.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Mike Elledge
Assistant Director
Usability & Accessibility Center
Michigan State University

Received on Wednesday, 11 November 2009 15:48:06 UTC