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Re: Good Examples of Accessible Web Applications in theWild

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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: May 24, 2016 11:28AM

Thanks, that's why I asked. Often wen engineers hear web application they think of putting role="application" on the page body for this type of definition, which should never be done.

Mike's needs appear to be more specific such as a commercial shopping portal and the like, which I don't have an example of at the moment, but yours seems to be more general regarding a collection of provably accessible dynamic widgets, which you can see a collection of here if this is of help to you.
http://whatsock.com/bootstrap/jquery/

Unfortunately the majority of commercial web applications that I can think of at the moment, or dynamic web applications that all run from the same page, are found within enterprise web portals that are not publically viewable.

Generally a shopping site that navigates to different pages for it's processing is just a website, accessible or otherwise, so if that's what you guys are after, that broadens the possibilities.

Web applications in contrast are more restrictive and usually refer to heavily JavaScripted client side interactivity managed from within a small number of web pages, or as portal web apps dynamically injected into other web pages.

Bryan Garaventa
Accessibility Fellow
SSB BART Group, Inc.
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415.624.2709 (o)
www.SSBBartGroup.com


-----Original Message-----
From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Mike Barlow
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 9:55 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Good Examples of Accessible Web Applications in the Wild

I'd pretty much go with the Wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application>definition of a Web
Application:

*In computing, a web application or web app is a client–server software application which the client (or user interface) runs in a web browser.*


As opposed to a "Web Site":

*A website, also written as web site, is a collection of related web pages, including multimedia content, typically identified with a common domain name, and published on at least one web server. *


And I'd love to see good examples of both myself

It's easy to find bad examples of accessible pages/applications (even some government websites around are still not properly accessible) But really good ones (other than the obvious like webaim or deque) are much harder to find


*Mike Barlow*
Web Application Developer
Web Accessibility/Section 508 SME

Lancaster, Pa 17601
Office: 732.835-7557
Cell: 732.682.8226
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On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Bryan Garaventa < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Can you explain what you mean by "web applications"?
>
> The word "application" is a loaded term in web technologies.
>
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> Bryan Garaventa
> Accessibility Fellow
> SSB BART Group, Inc.
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> 415.624.2709 (o)
> www.SSBBartGroup.com
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> Behalf Of Moore,Michael (Accessibility) (HHSC)
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 6:40 AM
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> Subject: [WebAIM] Good Examples of Accessible Web Applications in the
> Wild
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> Does anyone have a short list of accessible web applications that are
> publically available. I am working with a new development team here
> at HHS and they would like to see some good examples. I have plenty of bad ones...
>
> Mike Moore
> Accessibility Coordinator
> Texas Health and Human Services Commission Civil Rights Office
> (512) 438-3431 (Office)
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