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AJAX and Screenreaders: When Can it Work?
05/08/2006, By James Edwards



We've all heard a great deal of buzz about AJAX in the last few months, and with this talk has come a legion of articles, tips, presentations and practical APIs designed to explore the possibilities and try to arrive at best-practice techniques. But, for all of the excitement and hype, still very little has been said on the subject of AJAX and accessibility.

More complex and subtle problems arise with devices that do support JavaScript, but which still may not be able to interact with your application. Browser-based screen readers are like this: they are script-capable browsers, but their practical JavaScript support is nothing like on par with that of the browser on its own.

Wherever we look, from discussions at AccessifyForum, to popular blogs like those of Derek Featherstone, and Peter Paul-Koch, the one thing we can all agree on is that we need more information.

And that's why I've written this article: to present some of the data and analysis I've compiled, and see if it points to a useful conclusion.

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