dojotoolkit & accessibility

[denise]

In discussion in #gsoc this afternoon, one of the project mentors from DojoToolkit mentioned that they're the first JS toolkit with full accessibility support in their base widgets. We should totally look into it!

(Edit: He also PMed me to say: "if you have immediate questions, our community info can be found here: http://dojotoolkit.org/get-involved/ and I can be found here: http://ktiedt.dojotoolkit.org/gsoc/2010/karl.html", and offered whatever help we would need with integration ... his DW username is ktiedt, so welcome.)

Comments

[pauamma]

Great. Just as I had about talked myself into taking a look at that newfangled jQuery thing. You did that on purpose, right? :-)

(Joke aside, does it and jQuery provide the same or similar features, or do they complement each other?)

[foxfirefey]

From my limited readings, Dojo goes beyond what jQuery does, so they don't really compliment each other, but don't clash.

[ktiedt]

dojo focus's heavily on namespacing to prevent clashing with other frameworks. Anything jQuery can do, you can do with Dojo. It just might take more than one().line().of().chained().code().that().goes().on().for(ever); :P