aria-label is a useful tool to ensure a good user experience for assistive technology users, elevating your design from merely technically compliant to well signposted and usable.
Cristian returns this week with another detailed look at custom HTML5 <video> players! Following on from his last article, he shows us how to make a much more accessible, while still visually appealing, video player including WAI-ARIA support, captions, transcripts, and more.
There is increasing interest in, and importance being laid upon, making modern dynamic web applications more accessible. New specifications such as WAI-ARIA and HTML5 provide the means by which to do this; in this article Gez Lemon presents a solution for implementing accessible drag and drop functionality using JavaScript and WAI-ARIA. Some discussion of HTML5 drag-and-drop features is also included for good measure.