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From: Weissenberger, Todd M
Date: Jul 22, 2013 5:20AM

You might look at some of these widgets from Hans Hillen's Accessible jQuery UI Components library. From what I've seen, they're pretty solid in terms of keyboard operability. Not sure how ARIA-enhanced they are. We're evaluating them right now for our application development teams.

http://access.aol.com/aegis/

Regards,
Todd

T.M. Weissenberger
Web Accessibility Coordinator
University of Iowa

From: Jacob Kruger [ <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 3:27 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Need accessible J Query apps recommendation

The problem/fact is just that jQuery itself doesn't affect the accessibility
of the content/output, but, it's just a wrapper/tool for making it
easier/simpler to handle content manipulation, and implement dynamic HTML
manipulation, etc., and, yes, that can be quite inaccessible/irritating -
all I was saying is that jQuery itself isn't the issue...<smile>

In other words, sorry, but, if the site developers don't want to cooperate,
there wouldn't be too much you could do, other than trying to do something
like the greaseMonkey wrapper I spoke of, since it might let you work around
others accessibility implementation issues, but, that would also require
quite a bit of exploration/investigation into their site's contents, and
then some javascript scripting as well.

There are also already greaseMonkey wrapper sharing sites out there where
people share what they've put together for other sites, etc., but, don't
think you'd necessarily find too many accessibility specific implementations
already submitted/shared on them either, and it also really depends on the
size of the target site's target market as well.

Stay well

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tania" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Need accessible J Query apps recommendation


> Hi Jacob,
> I don't know java or j query so your advice is incomprehensible to me.
> Sigh...
> Ever since that site 'upgraded', it was awful for the blind like me to
> use it so I thought i'd ask the experts here for some useful tips to
> make it less hellish.
>
> thanks
>
> respectfully
> tania
>
> On 7/21/2013 3:25 PM, Jacob Kruger wrote:
>> Hi there - first post to list
>>
>> Anyway, jQuery itself isn't inaccessible, etc., but, it really depends on
>> how you use it, what you want it to implement on a webpage, etc. etc. - I
>> myself use it quite a lot, but, make sure it doesn't befuddle
>> screenreaders,
>> etc., and this includes using it to possibly toggle real-time sound
>> effect
>> playback, hide/display parts of webpage content, shift focus, etc. etc.
>>
>> And, while haven't checked out their website/webpage, another possibility
>> have been considering for quite a while is implementing a use of
>> something
>> like the greaseMonkey javascript wrapper, which lets you apply your own
>> forms of content manipulation to others website content, using a browser
>> plug-in, and, it might specifically be feasible/usable in a case like
>> this
>> where you instead want to add custom handlers/wrappers for others content
>> elements, etc.?
>>
>> Either way, like said, jQuery is, as I see it, just a form of wrapper
>> around
>> normal javascript DOM (document object model) to make it
>> quicker/easier/simpler to then implement DOM manipulation/handling, but,
>> it,
>> in itself isn't inaccessible/accessible either way.
>>
>> Stay well
>>
>> Jacob Kruger
>> Blind Biker
>> Skype: BlindZA
>> '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tania" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 9:07 AM
>> Subject: [WebAIM] Need accessible J Query apps recommendation
>>
>>
>>> Hello web aim experts,
>>>
>>> The blind community in my country is having serious online access from a
>>> home-grown airline website.Developers in my country are NOT trained in
>>> building for accessibility and there are no blind developers locally to
>>> provide advice so I hope you can help.
>>>
>>> Can you please recommend accessible J Query apps for choosing flight
>>> destinations and accessible calendar to choose dates for flight tickets
>>> for this website:
>>>
>>> www.airasia.com/asia
>>>
>>> Our blind community had met with the airline staff a number of times to
>>> show them the accessibility problems screen reader users faced and they
>>> did make adjustments but the most serious problems for online flight
>>> bookings still remain. Now, the web staff at the airline are ignoring
>>> request for more meetings with us. I suspect the local developers have
>>> reached the limits of their capabilities. I do hope the accessibility
>>> experts here can provide some tips on how to make the website more
>>> accessible so we can provide some useful info to those who are working
>>> on the site.
>>>
>>> This is a low cost airline, making it a more affordable choice for the
>>> blind here.
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Tania
>>>
>>> >>> >>> >>>
>> >> >> >>
>
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