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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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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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Accessible Client-side Form Validation with HTML5, WAI-ARIA, & the jQuery Validation Plugin

May 25, 2012 By Paul J. Adam

Old browsers? Old AT? JavaScript to the rescue! In the last part of our series on accessible form validation and usability enhancements we’re adding the…

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Accessible Client-side Form Validation with HTML5 & WAI-ARIA

May 9, 2012 By Paul J. Adam

  WAI-ARIA is WAY COOL! In part two of the three-part series on accessible form validation and usability enhancements we’re going to use WAI-ARIA (Web…

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Accessible Client-side Form Validation with HTML5

May 3, 2012 By Paul J. Adam

Connecting labels to inputs is easy! But what about required fields, error messages, and keyboard focus? In this three part blog series we’ll learn to make…

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