tomayac, 1 month ago

@SaraSoueidan I would love to read and learn from you about making rich web apps accessible. How and when to use live regions, how to announce new state in SPAs, etc. I reckon this is a super complex topic and probably part of your course. But since you were asking for ideas…

SaraSoueidan, 1 month ago

@tomayac I think these two course chapters that I recently published on my blog might answer a lot of those questions:

https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/accessible-notifications-with-aria-live-regions-part-1/

https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/accessible-notifications-with-aria-live-regions-part-2/

I have a draft to elaborate on one of the examples in the chapters with a working demo, and I guess I could elaborate more on other more specific ones. The course also contains chapters on form validation that also tackle dynamic message announcements using focus management.

tomayac, 29 days ago

@SaraSoueidan Thanks a lot for the reply, and pardon for the long silence; I wanted to make sure I fully understand the two linked posts.

So I guess what I propose you could write about would be changes of content as defined in https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/accessible-notifications-with-aria-live-regions-part-1/#status-messages-in-wcag. The linked posts talk about things that are not changes of content.

Examples of things that are changes of content are (IIUC) games like https://flip.withgoogle.com/ or single-page app blogs like https://philipwalton.com/. These aren't live regions!?

sarajw, 1 month ago

@SaraSoueidan I'm struggling to answer this with any specific topics, because if you already have ideas I'd love to hear them!

Maybe we need a poll 😅

SaraSoueidan, 1 month ago

@sarajw I have CSS, HTML, a11y topics, and a wide range of each category 😅

sarajw, 1 month ago

@SaraSoueidan Oooh I have had one idea - the situations where HTML alone isn't accessible?

SaraSoueidan, 1 month ago

@sarajw Hmm I have one for when HTML alone is accessible; could you elaborate more? You mean components that require additional JS to become accessible?

sarajw, 1 month ago

@SaraSoueidan yes, those! I mean, most HTML is grand the way it is, and shouldn't functionally be disturbed too much - but I know there are exceptions where a bit of JS makes them more accessible, yes. I always forget which they are!

alvaromontoro, 1 month ago

@sarajw @SaraSoueidan the most recent <dialog> element won't work accessibly unless you use JS. And it's "new".

SaraSoueidan, 1 month ago

@sarajw noted! These are actually some of my favoritw topics to write about, so I appreciate the vote ☺️