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AJAX is a very powerful way of making your web page interactive. It is a straightforward instrument for experienced web-developers and therefore it is very popular nowadays. But AJAX has a very big problem with accessibility. Sometimes, pages with AJAX can trigger a script that simply changes the way the page looks like or changes the contents of the page. For someone that is using a screen reader to navigate through it, it is very hard to understand that possibly a text is somewhere changed. So, in order to make AJAX accessible, there

Roberto Scano offers a detailed and informative history of website accessibility: "The first web revolution happened on the 14th January 1997: HTML 3.2 was issued from a consortium called the W3C, a consortium not yet known to web developers. As written in the document's introduction, HTML 3.2 is the W3C's specification for HTML, developed in early 1996, together with vendors including IBM, Microsoft, Netscape Communications Corporation, Novell, SoftQuad, Spyglass, and Sun Microsystems. HTML 3.2 added widely deployed features such as tables, applets