Accessible Web 2.0 Applications with WAI-ARIA

Martin Kliehm, Senior Web Developer for BlueMars, has written an interesting overview of what is going on in the world of accessible Web 2.0 applications.

The article talks about Web 2.0 applications and their accessibility and usability problems because of the limitations of (X)HTML and the W3C’s standards draft for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) which addresses those limitations.

It provides new ways of communicating meaning, importance, and relationships, and it fills gaps in the (X)HTML specifications and increases usability for all users by enabling navigation models familiar from desktop applications.