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Accessibility for the Dynamic Web is now possible due to new standards being developed at the W3C and being implemented in Firefox. The technology allows today's web pages to contain additional markup describing semantics. An often-cited benefit of this technology is the ability to describe scripted widgets with dynamic behaviour. However, another major benefit is to differentiate the sections of a web page, via human-readable labels or predefined semantics such as "main", "contentinfo", "navigation" and "search". Marking the sections of a web page offers significant improvement for users who need access to today's web with a small device or an assistive technology.

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W4A '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international cross-disciplinary workshop on Web accessibility (W4A): Building the mobile web: rediscovering accessibility?
May 2006
153 pages
ISBN:159593281X
DOI:10.1145/1133219
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Published: 22 May 2006

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  1. accessibility
  2. dynamic HTML
  3. semantics
  4. user agents

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