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Ajax live regions: ReefChat using the fire vox screen reader as a case example

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ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 225 archive
Proceedings of the 2007 international cross-disciplinary conference on Web accessibility (W4A) table of contents

Banff, Canada

Pages: 136 - 137

Year of Publication: 2007

ISBN:1-59593-590-X

Authors

Peter Thiessen	University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
Charles Chen	The University of Texas at Austin

Sponsors

: Mozilla Foundation
HA&AC : IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center
SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
: Zakon Group
SIGACCESS: ACM Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Web 2.0 enabled by the Ajax architecture has given rise to a new level of user interactivity through web browsers. Many new and extremely popular Web applications have been introduced such as Google Maps, Google Docs, Flickr, and so on. Ajax Toolkits such as Dojo allow web developers to build Web 2.0 applications quickly and with little effort. Unfortunately, the accessibility support in most toolkits and Ajax applications overall is lacking. WAI-ARIA markup for live regions presents a solution to making these applications accessible.

To address this problem we developed an Accessible Ajax chat application called ReefChat and the Fire Vox screen reader. Features include, chat message notification through live regions to notify the AT. As well as keying up and down messages to navigate through chat messages, and keying left and right to filter messages from specific users. In this paper after briefly discussing the problem of Web 2.0, we describe our accessible chat application and screen reader.

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	1	Dojo. "Dojo the Javascript Toolkit". 15 January 2006 <http://dojotoolkit.org>
	2	Chen, Charles. Fire Vox. 11 January 2007 <http://firevox.clcworld.net>
	3	Mozilla Developer Center. "AJAX:WAI ARIA Live Regions". 23 January 2007 <http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAX:WAI_ARIA_Live_Regions>
	4	Thiessen, Peter. ReefChat. 20 March 2007. <http://reefchat.overscore.com>
	5	World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Roadmap for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA Roadmap) 20 December 2006. 17 January 2007 <http://www.w3.org/TR/aria-roadmap>

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