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From: John Foliot
Date: May 5, 2010 12:09PM

Gareth Dart wrote:
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> In terms of joomla extensions, can't help you, but we use Jquery's tabs
> widget on our joomla 1.0.x based sites. Tabs can be selected via the
> tab key and selected tabs are brought to the front via the return key.
> I have not yet acquainted myself thoroughly with jquery's accessibility
> but have generally heard good things about it and have not yet noticed
> any serious complaints about it's accessibility.

Just to add to the discussion of jQuery - the core library is pretty good
vis-à-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.

FWIW

JF





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