- ‘Web Accessibility Initiative for Accessible Rich Internet Applications’
- Marks up navigation, search forms, sidebars, headers, footers, main bits of a page to AT
- Useful for jumping around a page
- Supplement HTML semantic meaning (i.e. <nav> and role="navigation" are equivalent, but doesn't hurt to use both)
- Caption and summary elements for tables (equivalent to alt tags for data)
- Scope attributes added - these communicate whether a <th> is a column header or a row header
- Mini pager improvement for AT users
- ARIA attributes used to communicate sort order
- General clean up
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