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Progressive Enhancement with ARIA [Accessibility Summit 2010]

If you've been paying attention for the last few years, you're likely well-versed in progressive enhancement and it's content-out approach to web design, but you may be less familiar with the Accessible Rich Internet Applications spec and how you can leverage its enhanced semantics to provide a truly accessible experience. In this session, we'll cover the following: * Discuss progressive enhancement and where ARIA fits into the mix * Examine how ARIA's landmark roles can provide additional clues as to document structure * Look at the various roles and states ARIA defines for building accessible widgets * Cover how to leverage tabindex in an effort to create a better overall experience when using the keyboard * Walk through the construction of an ARIA-enabled widget, from markup to scripting, following the progressive enhancement process

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