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From: Celeste Mackintosh
Date: Mon, Jan 11 2010 5:09PM
Subject: List of accessible javascripts
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Hi there,
This is my first post to this list, so hopefully it won't be wildly out of scope - but if it is, please let me know!
I was wondering whether there was a list anywhere of scripts (those that use frameworks such as jquery, prototype, scriptaculous, mootools, or just individual javascripts) that are accessible to users of different assistive technologies? Or even (this would be really good!) a site that evaluates accessibility of scripts, e.g. is accessible to keyboard users but not screenreader users because...?
I would find this kind of thing really helpful - I generally don't know enough to do the evaluation myself, and it's hard to say 'well we can't use this because' to people, if you're not entirely sure of the reason. And sometimes the resources themselves don't mention accessibility, and although that seems like a pretty good clue, it would be nice to not exclude resources because their documentation is a bit vague if they are accessible.
If anyone has a resource bookmarked that they could point me to, or has any other ideas, I would really appreciate it!
Celeste
From: Evans, Donald (Contractor)
Date: Tue, Jan 12 2010 6:51AM
Subject: Re: List of accessible javascripts
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Becky Gibson at IBM has done a lot of work in the Dojo Toolkit.
http://www-03.ibm.com/able/resources/dojo.html
From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Tue, Jan 12 2010 7:18AM
Subject: Re: List of accessible javascripts
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Celeste Mackintosh wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> This is my first post to this list, so hopefully it won't be wildly out of scope - but if it is, please let me know!
>
> I was wondering whether there was a list anywhere of scripts (those that use frameworks such as jquery, prototype, scriptaculous, mootools, or just individual javascripts) that are accessible to users of different assistive technologies? Or even (this would be really good!) a site that evaluates accessibility of scripts, e.g. is accessible to keyboard users but not screenreader users because...?
>
> I would find this kind of thing really helpful - I generally don't know enough to do the evaluation myself, and it's hard to say 'well we can't use this because' to people, if you're not entirely sure of the reason. And sometimes the resources themselves don't mention accessibility, and although that seems like a pretty good clue, it would be nice to not exclude resources because their documentation is a bit vague if they are accessible.
>
> If anyone has a resource bookmarked that they could point me to, or has any other ideas, I would really appreciate it!
>
> Celeste
>
The YUI blog has some very good posts on accessibility features of the
widgets and videos how to do that yourself.
http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/category/accessibility/
From: Al Sparber
Date: Tue, Jan 12 2010 8:51AM
Subject: Re: List of accessible javascripts
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From: "Celeste Mackintosh" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> I would find this kind of thing really helpful - I generally don't know
> enough to do the evaluation myself, and it's hard to say 'well we can't
> use this because' to people, if you're not entirely sure of the reason.
> And sometimes the resources themselves don't mention accessibility, and
> although that seems like a pretty good clue, it would be nice to not
> exclude resources because their documentation is a bit vague if they are
> accessible.
>
> If anyone has a resource bookmarked that they could point me to, or has
> any other ideas, I would really appreciate it!
The risk with a post like this is always you will wind up with self-serving
answers :-) In my experience, the best course of action is to find a script
you like or want to use and then to test it. If you're not sure what to test
or how to test, then contact the author. If the author is not readily
"accessible" to answer your questions directly, then it's probably not a
script you want to use - for a number of reasons.
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From: Christophe Strobbe
Date: Tue, Jan 12 2010 9:15AM
Subject: Re: List of accessible javascripts
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Hi Celeste,
At 01:09 12/01/2010, you wrote:
>(...)
>I was wondering whether there was a list anywhere of scripts (those
>that use frameworks such as jquery, prototype, scriptaculous,
>mootools, or just individual javascripts) that are accessible to
>users of different assistive technologies? Or even (this would be
>really good!) a site that evaluates accessibility of scripts, e.g.
>is accessible to keyboard users but not screenreader users because...?
Last summer, Steve Faulkner compared the state of WAI-ARIA
implementation in a number of JavaScript UI libraries:
<http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=313>;. Of course, information
like this tends to go out of date after a while ...
For the screen reader side, there is Marco Zehe's "WAI-ARIA Windows
screen reader shootout", also from last summer:
<http://www.marcozehe.de/2009/07/01/the-wai-aria-windows-screen-reader-shootout/>;.
Best regards,
Christophe
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From: Celeste Mackintosh
Date: Tue, Jan 12 2010 8:54PM
Subject: Re: List of accessible javascripts
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Thank you to everyone who made a suggestion - I've bookmarked them all and I'm looking through them!
Thank you :)
Celeste