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The purpose of Overscore and the Live Region blog is to help developers understand how to apply Live Regions to their AJAXy Web apps as painlessly as possible.
Expect weekly posts about all aspects of WAI-ARIA live regions here as well as a few general accessibility posts.
Visit the ABOUT page for more information on this blog, overscore, or myself.

Overview of ARIA Live Regions

May 27th, 2008

Currently the WAI-ARIA guidelines address the problem of dynamic Web content by embedding accessible roles and states into HTML documents. Using ARIA, Web authors can create custom widgets such as a slider or grid and make them accessible by marking them up with WAI-ARIA. The markup allows a mapping for behavior and settings that AT can interpret and speak to the user…

WCAG2 Quick Reference for Developers

May 7th, 2008

This post is intended to be used as a quick reference quide of the Web Content Accessible Guidelines 2.0(WCAG2) for XHTML syntax. Each XHTML element is displayed in the table of contents with a link to its related explanation. The explanation contains a link to the related WCAG2 definition, possibly a discussion, and a point form list requirements.

Overscore is now a blog

April 30th, 2008

I decided after talking with David Bolter (ATRC) about the value of academic papers that it is time for me to move on to blogs. The main reasoning was that blogs will hit more developers and potentially have more of an impact on the open source community. How could I say no :)