Accessible JavaScript for screen readers

13/11/2008 | No comments

Making JavaScript truly accessible can be challenging. Unobtrusive JavaScript is quite manageable, and the combination of progressive enhancement and unobtrusive JavaScript is a solid base for accessibility. But getting JavaScript to work reliably in a screen reader (especially in an AJAX-heavy web application) is a different proposition.

Aaron Cannon and Aaron Barker thought it should be a bit easier. So they took everything they know from long investigation into how JavaScript is handled by Jaws and Window Eyes, and distilled it for the rest of us.

If you’re not a JavaScript-on-screen-readers guru (and you want to be), JavaScript and screen readers is definitely worth a read.

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