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Denise ([staff profile] denise) wrote in [site community profile] dw_dev2010-04-21 04:10 pm
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dojotoolkit & accessibility

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 [personal profile] ktiedt, so welcome.)
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[personal profile] afuna 2010-04-27 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
That would be terrific! I know that the widget framework for jQuery has WAI-ARIA support, but I don't know how extensive it is in practical use. There's also theming so it's easy to make light-on-dark as well as dark-on-light and the ability to turn off animations entirely, but other things like keyboard navigability or similar, I'm afraid I know nothing about.

Hmm, here are the jQuery demos for testing (I think the widgets column is what you'll be after?)


I used Dojo for one project, a long time ago, but it was a one-off, and I wasn't looking at it with an eye towards accessibility -- I'm just about to start looking through the links that [personal profile] ktiedt provided to learn more.

Anyway, I'm really interested to see how both of these stack up, and whether either is a clear winner, or whether it could go either way, and if we could get real world information that would be fantastic.
Edited (HTML error) 2010-04-27 01:59 (UTC)
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