ARIA Controls and Menus with JAWS - Objectives

ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) controls and menus are appearing more and more on the world wide Web. JAWS users need to understand how to interact with these controls and how JAWS behaves when they are encountered.

Objectives

By the end of this workshop you will understand, be able to discuss, and/or perform the following tasks, as they apply to users of JAWS screen reading software:

• What is ARIA? (Accessible Rich Internet Applications)
• JAWS virtual buffer
• Forms mode, auto forms mode, and navigation quick keys in JAWS
• Application role in ARIA
• Regions
• Live regions and live regions atomic
• Practice with various ARIA controls and menus
• Find more information about ARIA

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