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 by end of Q2
• Plan for advanced level of WAI-ARIA support for Tier 1 websites by end of Q3
• Plan for basic level of WAI-ARIA support for Tier 2 websites by end of Q2
• Educate webdev and QA teams about WAI-ARIA during Q2

Glossary

Basic ARIA Support

A basic level of ARIA support is defined as follows:

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

• Basic ARIA Before/After Example

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

• Setting up your computer with a screenreader
• ARIA Before/After Example
• ARIA Overview
• ARIA Spec
• ARIA Add-on - highlights ARIA regions. Extremely helpful in testing compliance.
• ARIA test cases
• ARIA best practices
• HTML Validator with ARIA DTD Support
• Accessible widgets with ARIA video

Tier 1 websites

• mozilla.com
• AMO
• 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)