Webdev:WAI-ARIA

Mission

To add WAI-ARIA support for all public, consumer facing Mozilla websites.

Goals

• Add a basic level of WAI-ARIA to all Tier 1 websites
• Plan for advanced level of WAI-ARIA support for Tier 1 websites
• Plan for basic level of WAI-ARIA support for Tier 2 websites
• Educate webdev and QA teams about WAI-ARIA

Glossary

Basic ARIA Support

A basic level of ARIA support is defined as follows:

• ARIA Landmarks
• ARIA Required
• ARIA Invalid
• ARIA Live Regions

Advanced ARIA Support

An advanced level of ARIA support is defined as follows:

• Focus navigation
• User Input Widgets
• User Interface Elements
• Keyboard widget navigation

Resources

• ARIA Overview
• ARIA Add-on - highlights ARIA regions. Extremely helpful in testing compliance.
• ARIA test cases
• ARIA best practices

Tier 1 websites

• mozilla.com
• AMO
  • IE8 support for public pages, limited/no support for dev cp?
• SUMO
• SFX
• Mozilla Blog

Tier 2 websites

• Mozilla Store
• Community Store
• contribute.mozilla.org
• Impact Mozilla - no further development on this, I believe
• Operation Firefox - ditto (above)