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In recent months, people in the W3C HTML5 Accessibility Task Force developed two proposals for introducing caption, subtitle, and more generally time-aligned text support into HTML5 audio and video.

Here we present before you, a comprehensive list of more than 30 HTML5 tutorials and techniques that you can’t afford to miss if you are a web developer.

I wanted to play around a bit and confirm for myself how some of the leading screen readers for Windows, namely JAWS 11, Window-Eyes 7.11, NVDA 2010.1, and SAToGo 3.0.202, currently handle basic HTML5 sectioning elements as well as ARIA landmark and other roles

This is the second in a multipost series about the immediate and likely future of web accessibility.

Video for Everybody is simply a chunk of HTML code that embeds a video into a website using the HTML5 <video> element, falling back to QuickTime and Flash automatically, without the use of JavaScript or browser-sniffing. It therefore works in RSS readers (no JavaScript), on the iPhone / iPad (don’t support Flash) and on many, many browsers and platforms.

Demo of deep hyperlinking into HTML5 video

"HTML 5 introduces the video and audio media elements. Playback is manipulated by the user with browser supplied controls (indicated via the controls attribute), or with author supplied controls. In the case of browser supplied controls the current Firefox implementation is described here, and an idea for potentially improved keyboard support is suggested."

The only checks that are made for now is for attribute values. Attribute with values that are unquoted are flagged if either the Pedagogical or Polyglot profile is selected. Additionally, attributes without values at all will be flagged if Polyglot is selected.

The following tables compare support of HTML 5 differences from HTML 4 for a number of layout engines. The specification is still a working draft, not a recommendation, and thus not stable. Unless otherwise specified in footnotes, comparisons are based on the stable versions without any add-ons, extensions or external programs.

XHTML 2.0 is simpler than HTML 4.01 and HTML 5 (web Apps) by REDUCING the number of elements. Very interesting stastistics which is closer of the motto of the microformats.