Keyboard Navigation in Accessible Rich Internet Applications

Your Web client application supports Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA). ARIA define a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible for people with disabilities and easier to use for all users. ARIA especially help in navigating within dynamic content and in using advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies.

ARIA include a collection of common, semantic landmarks that apply to each navigable region in an application. These landmarks allow a person with disabilities to use an assistive-technology product, such a screen reader, to navigate in an application. Landmarks provide a consistent navigation experience in which a pointing device, such as a mouse, is unnecessary.

Examples of landmarks include: the application-level menu, the application toolbar, screen names, view names, lists, visibility filters, and forms. If you use a JAWS screen reader, press CTRL + INSERT + ; (semicolon) to display a dialog box that describes the landmarks.

For information about ARIA, visit the Web Accessibility Initiative website: http://www.w3.org/WAI/