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Re: Good Examples of Accessible Web Applications in the Wild

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From: Mike Barlow
Date: May 24, 2016 11:47AM

Well, though I am loathe to admit it you might want to try checking out the
IBM Jazz site (jazz.net) It required a (free) login and they have a sandbox
where you can set up your own demo of their product line (which is used by
the Dept of Veterans Affairs, so it's gone through a fairly extensive 508
compliance test <I presume *wink wink*>):

- Change and Configuration Management,
- Quality Management, Requirements Management,
- Design Management
- Project Portal

I just set one up and can email an invite to use the one I just set up if
you want (or just go register and set your own up, it took me about 5
minutes)


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

Lancaster, Pa 17601
Office: 732.835-7557
Cell: 732.682.8226
e-mail: <EMAIL REMOVED>

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Bryan Garaventa <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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.
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> 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
> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> 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
> e-mail: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > Bryan Garaventa
> > Accessibility Fellow
> > SSB BART Group, Inc.
> > <EMAIL REMOVED>
> > 415.624.2709 (o)
> > www.SSBBartGroup.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> > Behalf Of Moore,Michael (Accessibility) (HHSC)
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 6:40 AM
> > To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> > Subject: [WebAIM] Good Examples of Accessible Web Applications in the
> > Wild
> >
> > 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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