AJAX Accessibility for Websites

By Brigitte Simard
2008-03-10


Accessibility benefits of AJAX

As well as significantly improving the user experience AJAX applications can also enhance accessibility. For example:

• Auto-suggest dropdowns can help both users with reading difficulties and motor impairments
  
  e.g. City and airport suggestions are offered as users enter text

  

• Drag & drop sliders can help users with reading difficulties due to their illustrative nature
  
  e.g. A click-and-drag slider is used to filter search criteria

  

Tutorial Pages:
» Introduction
» What is AJAX?
» Accessibility benefits of AJAX
» Accessibility issues caused by AJAX
» Recommendations for AJAX and accessibility

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