Comment on Use Google+ to Improve Your UIparentComments−flyosity15yThis is absolutely terrible for accessibility. Screen readers will not handle these buttons properly leading to a significantly more difficult experience. James Edwards actually talked about this at The Highland Fling conference a few weeks back.−mbrubeck15yThe Google buttons do use the ARIA role="button" attribute, which should let them work in screen readers.−blakeperdueOP15yGood point on accessibility. Anyone have links to making your UI accessible (including buttons)?−mdwrigh215yHere's a pretty good introduction on ARIA which is what Google uses to make their web sites accessible: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptjunkie/ff743762−icebraining15yOr for people using Vimperator/Pentadactyl :|
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This is absolutely terrible for accessibility. Screen readers will not handle these buttons properly leading to a significantly more difficult experience. James Edwards actually talked about this at The Highland Fling conference a few weeks back.
The Google buttons do use the ARIA role="button" attribute, which should let them work in screen readers.
Good point on accessibility. Anyone have links to making your UI accessible (including buttons)?
Here's a pretty good introduction on ARIA which is what Google uses to make their web sites accessible: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptjunkie/ff743762
Or for people using Vimperator/Pentadactyl :|