Heydon Pickering

assumed the role of a checkbox by being given role=“checkbox”. Roles in ARIA, like races in a role-playing game, are a part of a character’s identity that we might be interested in. We might expect dwarves to be strong and good at constructing machines, just like we expect a to have the characteristics and behaviors […]

Perhaps the only thing worse than a fire that could happen to the office of a web development company would be losing connectivity to the web. This is why Google Mail inserts a warning whenever you go offline. As noted in Marco Zehe’s 2008 blog post, Google was an early adopter of ARIA live regions. In