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Support for ARIA

World Wide Web Consortium's (W3c) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) group has introduced the Accessible Rich Internet Application (ARIA) specification to ensure accessibility of rich internet applications for all users including people with disabilities.

ARIA has been incorporated across Techshare India 2010 web pages including forms. Landmarks have been added to aid navigation for keyboard and screen reader users. Screen reader users can access these pages with Mozilla FireFox version 3.0 or above web browser.

On this page, help instructions are provided for accessing ARIA functionality using JAWS 10 or later, NVDA 2009.1 and Firevox 6.1 talking browser extension with Mozilla Firefox 3.0 or later.

Note: JavaScript needs to be enabled to access forms including ARIA support.

In addition, BarrierBreak has also ensured users browsing without JavaScript can access the forms successfully.

Screen reader users can access the page landmarks by performing the following steps:

  1. JAWS users can navigate to the next and previous landmarks on a web page by pressing "Semicolon (;)" or "SHIFT + Semicolon (;)" respectively. Alternatively they can access the list of navigation by pressing "CTRL + INSERT + Semicolon (;)".
  2. NVDA users can navigate to the next and previous landmark on a web page by pressing "D" and "SHIFT + D" respectively.

Similarly screen reader users can access ARIA functionality incorporated within the forms by performing the following steps:

JAWS users can access the forms by performing the following steps:

  1. In Mozilla FireFox, open Techshare India 2010 Conference Registration form.
  2. Move to the main content of the web page by activating the "Skip to main content" link available at the top of the web page or jump to the main landmark.
  3. Press the Arrow keys to read the instructions before filling up the form.
  4. Use the Tab and Shift + Tab key to navigate through the form. As you move from one form control to another, all the information provided using ARIA will be read out automatically.
  5. Once you have filled up all the fields, activate the "Submit" button to submit the details.

Note: By default, JAWS switches to "Forms Mode" automatically while interacting with form controls. You can switch to "Browse Mode" by pressing "Numpad Plus" with Numlock turned off and read the textual information.

NVDA users can access the forms by performing the following steps:

  1. In Mozilla FireFox, open Techshare India 2010 Conference Registration form.
  2. Move to the main content of the web page by activating the "Skip to main content" link available at the top of the web page or jump to the main landmark.
  3. Press the Arrow keys to read the instructions before filling up the form.
  4. Use the Tab and Shift + Tab key to navigate through the form. As you move from one form control to another, all the information provided using ARIA will be read out automatically.
  5. Once you have filled up all the fields, activate the "Submit" button to submit the details.

Note: NVDA switches to "Focus Mode" automatically while interacting with form controls. You can press "Insert + Spacebar" to switch to "Browse Mode" to read the textual information.

Firevox users can access the forms by performing the following steps:

  1. In FireFox with Firevox running, open Techshare India 2010 Conference Registration form.
  2. Move to the main content of the web page by activating the "Skip to main content" link provided at the top of the web page.
  3. Press Ctrl + Shift + F (move forward an element) or Ctrl + Shift + D (move to the previous element) to read the instructions before filling up the form.
  4. Use the Tab and Shift + Tab key to navigate through the form. As you move from one form control to another, all the information provided using ARIA will be read out automatically. Firevox will announce "Clue" before reading out instructional text that gets added on the form whereas it will announce "Change" before reading out the form controls that get added to the form.

    Note: Firevox will read out the updated information after a short delay. It will pause for few seconds before reading out the information.

  5. Once you have filled up all the fields, activate the "Submit" button to submit the details.