By Duncan Geere, Wired UK

The folks at Zooniverse have a new citizen science project for you to play with — matching up whalesong to try and analyze the watery leviathans’ language.

Pilot whales, too, appear...

WAI-ARIA, the W3C’s specification for Accessible Rich Internet Application, provides web developers with a means of annotating page elements with the roles, properties, and states that define exactly what those elements do. The added definitions help screen readers and other assistive devices navigate through your website.

We’ve previously looked at how WAI-ARIA can help you build more accessible websites, and showed you how the role attribute can help browsers understand what an HTML element is being used for. Nice as both of those techniques are, neither is much help if browsers and screen...