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web accessibility
About this tag
Web accessibility ensures that websites and web applications are usable by people with disabilities, including those who rely on keyboards and assistive technology. On WindowsForum.com, discussions highlight Microsoft's contributions to web accessibility, such as the focusgroup API, a declarative tool that simplifies keyboard navigation for complex UI widgets. This browser-level feature helps developers meet WCAG success criteria and WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices more easily, improving the experience for keyboard-only users. The tag covers topics like assistive technology, keyboard operability, and Microsoft's role in advancing web platform accessibility.
Microsoft’s browser teams have quietly added a new, declarative tool to the web platform that promises to make keyboard navigation far easier for developers — and measurably better for people who rely on keyboards and assistive technology to use the web.
Background
For more than a decade the...
Microsoft has opened a preview of a new browser-level tool that promises to make keyboard navigation for complex UI widgets dramatically easier for web developers — and, crucially, for users who depend on keyboard-only interaction.
Background
For more than a decade web accessibility guidance has...