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Web Applications and Assistive Technology Architectual Design Issues

This wiki is designed for the discussion of the design features and standards needed for web applications to cooperate with assistive technologies to make web applications more accessible by people with disabilities and the assistive technology. One of the goals of this wiki is to identify the important issues that need to be addressed in creating a more accessible architecture for web applications.

Related Groups

• W3C Protocols and Formats Group (http://www.w3.org/wai/pf)
• W3C User Agent Working Group (http://www.w3.org/wai/pf)

W3C Related Resources

• User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (http://www.w3c.org/TR/UAAG/)
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (http://www.w3c.org/TR/WCAG20/)
• Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (http://www.w3c.org/TR/ATAG/)
• XML Accessibility Guidelines (http://www.w3.org/TR/xag.html)
• The W3C Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents (http://www.w3.org/2004/04/webapps-cdf-ws/)

Industry Related resources

• Sun Accessibility Resources (http://www.sun.com/access/)
• IBM Accessibility Resources (http://www-306.ibm.com/able/guidelines/index.html)
• Microsoft Developer Resources (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnanchor/html/accessibility.asp)
• Adobe Accessibility Resources (http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/accessibility/)
• Apple Developer Accessibility Information (http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/MakingAppsAccessible/index.html)
• Macromedia Flash Accessibility (http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/accessibility/features/flash/)
• Free Standards Group Accessibility Workgroup (http://www.a111y.org/)

Issues

• Identification of the purpose of interactive elements in a web application
• Deveice independent activation of interactive elements in a web application
• Programmatic activation of of intereactive elements by assistive technologies
• Notification of changes to web application interface to assistive technologies
• Use of mainstream standards to provide assistive technology compatibility

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