Google Chrome accessibility commitment

Google has committed to supporting MSAA and WAI-ARIA in Google Chrome.

When it comes to accessibility the right strategy is generally cooperation. It’s hard enough even with that!

Engineers from Mozilla, IBM, Apple, Microsoft and Opera are already working together on how to best expose Web 2.0 via platform accessibility APIs. Let’s hope that the Google Chrome team will join the general effort to harmonize web accessibility technologies.

UPDATE: Jonas Klink from Google will join the WAI-ARIA browser harmonization effort!

This entry was posted on Friday, September 5th, 2008 at 1:30 pm and is filed under Accessibility, Mozilla, Open source, Web 2.0. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to Google Chrome accessibility commitment

kingdom media says:

September 16, 2008 at 10:31 pm

there are so many advantages and features with Chrome, such as it’s speed, for example; now if only they would take care it’s flighty cookie management…
SneakyWho_am_i says:

October 3, 2008 at 1:57 pm

Frankly after reading the comic I can only expect Google to jump head first into any and every open standard development or implementation that they possibly can.

If they can open it up a bit more, finish the Linux version, allow themes and extensions, and attract a lot of good attention from the Firefox extension development community (Noscript ala Giorgo, Adblock Plus, More of the Firebug and web developer functionality) then I’m there! In a big way.

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