Ordering Soma Overnight Delivery - Discount Online Pharmacy http://accessify.com/news/2007/03/accessibility-vs-rich-internet-applications-ria/ Accessibility news: WCAG, WAI, PAS 78 ... and all manner of other weird acronyms and stuff Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Ordering Soma Overnight Delivery - Discount Online Pharmacy http://accessify.com/news/2007/03/accessibility-vs-rich-internet-applications-ria/comment-page-1/#comment-6058 Bob Easton Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:59:29 +0000 http://accessify.com/news/2007/03/accessibility-vs-rich-internet-applications-ria/#comment-6058 RIAs need not be "their worst enemy." There are ways of making RIAs somewhat accessible today, at least at the demonstration level. W3C standards development work, under the name of ARIA has already broken significant ground, and through forward looking developers can actually be used with Firefox plus Window Eyes to great extent, and Firefox plus JAWS to slightly less extent. Progress is afoot for RIAs. No word yet from the 800 pound gorilla in Redmond. ARIA: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-aria-roadmap-20060926/ RIAs need not be “their worst enemy.” There are ways of making RIAs somewhat accessible today, at least at the demonstration level. W3C standards development work, under the name of ARIA has already broken significant ground, and through forward looking developers can actually be used with Firefox plus Window Eyes to great extent, and Firefox plus JAWS to slightly less extent. Progress is afoot for RIAs. No word yet from the 800 pound gorilla in Redmond.

ARIA: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-aria-roadmap-20060926/

]]> Ordering Soma Overnight Delivery - Discount Online Pharmacy http://accessify.com/news/2007/03/accessibility-vs-rich-internet-applications-ria/comment-page-1/#comment-5706 Toni Ruckwood Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:20:55 +0000 http://accessify.com/news/2007/03/accessibility-vs-rich-internet-applications-ria/#comment-5706 You can't deny that the increased awareness of accessibility issues amongst the web development community has led to an upwards trend in compliant web sites. With this in mind, and the increase in RIA development, I believe that much of the accessibility work that has gone into web site development will find its way into RIA's. This is something that has never happened with desktop applications. You can’t deny that the increased awareness of accessibility issues amongst the web development community has led to an upwards trend in compliant web sites.

With this in mind, and the increase in RIA development, I believe that much of the accessibility work that has gone into web site development will find its way into RIA’s.

This is something that has never happened with desktop applications.

]]> Ordering Soma Overnight Delivery - Discount Online Pharmacy http://accessify.com/news/2007/03/accessibility-vs-rich-internet-applications-ria/comment-page-1/#comment-5699 AlastairC Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:37:56 +0000 http://accessify.com/news/2007/03/accessibility-vs-rich-internet-applications-ria/#comment-5699 Ugh: "the issue of designing accessible, text-based Web sites for the visually impaired", quoting a Yahoo vs Yahoo topic which at @media included accessibility, "If rich applications are a part of your future, get used to the idea of maintaining two sites.". Fairly ill informed stuff. But then he finishes with "Don’t fret – there are solutions for being both accessible and rich, and your experts will help determine the best solution for your site.", without saying anything more about it! Ironically, because the RIAs he's talking about are based on HTML or flash, there is good scope for accessibility, but you wouldn't know that from the article. Ugh: “the issue of designing accessible, text-based Web sites for the visually impaired”, quoting a Yahoo vs Yahoo topic which at @media included accessibility, “If rich applications are a part of your future, get used to the idea of maintaining two sites.”. Fairly ill informed stuff.

But then he finishes with “Don’t fret – there are solutions for being both accessible and rich, and your experts will help determine the best solution for your site.”, without saying anything more about it!

Ironically, because the RIAs he’s talking about are based on HTML or flash, there is good scope for accessibility, but you wouldn’t know that from the article.

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