This should probably go into modernizr or something, so see it just as a prototype. It depends on jQuery and was quickly hacked together. Please suggest improvements to @yatil.
It adds ARIA to new elements in browsers which don’t do it by themselves.
Just drop into the bottom of your web page:
Souce: http://www.html5accessibility.com/index-aria.html
Todo: Extend Script for other elements, probably even play with fallback JS for inaccessible audio/video.
- @stevefaulkner for his work exploring html5 a11y,
- @paddya91 for object notation
- @ginader for reporting typo
- @webaxe for reporting an error
According to @jkiss, Window-Eyes 7.11 struggles with aria-roles and HTML5, this is nothing I can solve with this script but is a screen reader issue. See: http://ya.tl/aNH1YQ
This is Open Source and free to use. Attribution is nice to see, but no must. Just use it.