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From: Joshue O Connor
Date: May 5, 2010 1:15PM

On 05/05/2010 18:10, John Foliot wrote:
> 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.

That is good news! Thanks for the heads up.

Cheers

Josh


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