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Building Accessible Buttons with ARIA: A11y Support Series

September 28, 2016 By Paul J. Adam

Previously Paul J. Adam explained how to build ARIA role="alert" Modal Dialogs in his A11y support series. In his latest post in the series, Paul details how to build another ARIA widget: a simple role="button" UI control. He also explains what screen reader and browser combinations are supported when using other ARIA attributes allowed on role="button."

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How to Build WAI-ARIA Modal Alert Dialogs: A11y Support Series

August 24, 2016 By Paul J. Adam

In the second part of his accessibility support series, Paul Adam explains how to build an accessible widget with ARIA Modal Alert Dialogs. Learn new tricks on building accessible widgets that go above and beyond the recommendations outlined in the WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices.

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Why the Android Analyzer is Paving the Way for App Accessibility

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July 20, 2016 By Chris McMeeking

Learn about the newest cool tool from Deque: The Android Analyzer, which will help developers create accessible Android apps with the integration of accessibility testing into their development workflow. The Analyzer's rules have been developed in accordance with emerging WCAG mobile standards. Best of all, it's built for both manual and automated testing and can be specified to meet developers needs.

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Introducing aXe 2.0!

July 12, 2016 By Marcy Sutton

It's here! We're excited to announce the launch of aXe 2.0, an updated version of our open source accessibility testing engine! We've made improvements to many rules and checks, introduced a plugin system, added configuration options, and enhanced our project's infrastructure. Read this post by Marcy Sutton, Deque's a11y evangelist and senior front-end developer to learn more about why the latest version of aXe is better than ever, and how you can get involved.

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ARIA Tab Panel Accessibility: A11y Support Series

July 6, 2016 By Paul J. Adam

The following post is the first in Paul Adam’s new blog post series, “WAI-ARIA Widgets, Design Patterns, and Accessibility Support .” This series will outline…

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Accessibility Testing with aXe-core and WebdriverJS

May 18, 2016 By Marcy Sutton

In this tutorial, we’ll set up automated accessibility testing for a JavaScript project using axe-webdriverjs, a Node.js module making axe-core easy to use with Selenium…

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