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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] jadelennox 2010-05-05 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Fu, just making sure I don't forget this information about jQuery and accessibility:

Just to add to the discussion of jQuery - the core library is pretty good vis-Ã -vis ARIA enhancement, and AOL recently contracted with TPG
(http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=566) to review and improve jQuery UI
to fill in any missing holes. This will be a huge accessibility boost to
jQuery. Adding third-party modules/plug-in scripts to jQuery might require
an assessment to see if the developer added ARIA attributes, but I am
feeling very confident that the base library will be extremely good in
short order.
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