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  • Platform-Independent Accessibility API: Accessible Document Object Model

    Andres Gonzalez, Loretta Guarino Reid · 2005 · Proceedings of the 2005 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

    This paper, authored by Adobe engineers, addresses a fundamental problem in cross-platform accessibility: application developers who want to support assistive technologies must implement separate integrations for each operating system's accessibility API — MSAA on Windows, the…

    accessibility API · DOM · cross-platform accessibility · assistive technology · MSAA

  • Mozilla Accessibility on Unix/Linux

    Louie Zhao, Jay Yan, Kyle Yuan · 2005 · Proceedings of the 2005 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

    This paper by Sun Microsystems engineers documents the first implementation of accessibility support in Mozilla on Unix/Linux, addressing a significant gap that left disabled users of free operating systems without an accessible web browser. At the time (2005), Mozilla had…

    screen readers · keyboard navigation · open source · Linux accessibility · accessibility API

  • DHTML Accessibility – Solving the JavaScript Accessibility Problem

    Becky Gibson, Richard Schwerdtfeger · 2005 · Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

    This landmark paper from IBM researchers Becky Gibson and Richard Schwerdtfeger describes the foundational work that would become WAI-ARIA. At the time of writing, JavaScript was used on over 50% of websites, yet no accessibility solution existed for the dynamic web components…

    web accessibility · JavaScript · ARIA · screen readers · keyboard accessibility

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