WAI-ARIA showcase: TinyMCE 4.17
26th of February 2014
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Today, on February 26, the TinyMCE team released version 4.17 of the JavaScript/HTML editor for the web. In the release notes, the first item mentioned is much improved accessibility support. For those of you not familiar with TinyMCE: It is the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get), AKA visual or rich editor used in many popular content management systems such as the WordPress blogging software.
Over the past few weeks, I had the pleasure of testing the improved accessibility features and provide feedback to the developers. Here are a few hints to get you going, but for a full experience, I suggest you try it out yourself!
I tested with Firefox and NVDA and JAWS, but you should also get good results with Internet Explorer and other browser/screen reader combinations. Since the two mentioned work so well, it can be trusted that the implementation is very solid.
When you navigate or tab to the sample editor instance linked to above, you’ll land in the content area with some sample text. Arrowing up and down will give you paragraphs, headings and other items such as links. Note [...]