A more accessible Opera Unite

November 27, 2009 · by Henny Swan

This week saw the release of Opera 10.10 final complete with a more accessible Opera Unite. If you've not come across Opera Unite before it's a powerful platform that turns your browser into a server. This means that you can share content you have on your hard drive - photo's, files, folders, music, hosted websites - without having to uploaded these to a website.

There are benefits for all users but for those who struggle with the accessibility of social networks where they'd normally share photo's, files and information Opera Unite offers a fast, accessible and usable alternative. With this release we've added in some accessibility enhancements that we believe will benefit not just disabled but all users:

Default applications now have better page structure
Higher contrast has been added to links
It is possible to exit Slideshow and the Fridge with the keyboard
ARIA has been added in some places to announce updates to screenreaders
Overall keyboard accessibility has received some general tweaking

We're not stopping there however and would love to hear your feedback, comments and ideas. Drop me an email or leave a comment if you have any. Finally a special thank you to our Accessibility Volunteers for their input and ideas.

Readers' comments 4

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Daniel HendrycksFriday, November 27, 2009 12:02:18 PM
Ability to share multiple folders per application; e.g. photo sharing. The user could cram all there folders under one folder but why make the user go through that? People would rather just click a button then put all the folders together.
Charles SchlossSaturday, November 28, 2009 8:51:03 PM
Is there an update checker for the Unite apps?
Daniel HendrycksSaturday, November 28, 2009 9:31:58 PM
Originally posted by Chas4:

Is there an update checker for the Unite apps?

Nope, that's a great idea.

Here are some ideas to improve the Unite App Store along with a donation thing to encourage devs. http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=309481
Henny SwanThursday, December 3, 2009 1:10:03 PM
Thanks for all the suggestions, much appreciated.

While these aren't accessibility related I think they're useful to flag so by all means post them in the Unite Forum for feedback http://my.opera.com/community/forums/forum.dml?id=15515

Thanks DanielHendryck for already posting your ideas there