And Ext JS will support Aria/508 in version 3 which comes out April 14th. And yes, you are correct on the technical requirements of 508 but since 508 applies in legal terms to a surprisingly small section of the populace, most treat it as a guideline for trying to achieve a reasonable level of accessibility.
Judah On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Sandra Clark <slli...@shayna.com> wrote: > > Regarding ARIA. > > Aria is not compatible with Section 508 as it stands now. If you are trying > to comply with Section 508, ARIA will not help. > > Having said that, Section 508 is in a refresh, but has not yet been > finalized by the Access Board. The Section 508 refresh does in fact address > Aria by allowing Javascript that exposes, states, roles and properties to > User Agents. > > WCAG 2.0 has the same requirements. At this time the only javascript > framework that has widgets that are ARIA compliant is Dojo > (dojotoolkit.org). FireFox supports Aria now as does Opera. IE 8 will > support ARIA, I still haven't found out about Safari. Most of the major > screen readers (Jaws and Window Eyes) support ARIA in their latest versions. > > JQuery does not support ARIA at this time, although I understand that there > are plans to do so in a future release. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Judah McAuley [mailto:ju...@wiredotter.com] > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:31 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: (sot) CF and Section 508 compliance & a 508 compliant date/time > picker > > > I'd also recommend looking at the ARIA (accessible rich internet > applications) initiative through the W3C: > http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria-practices/ > > You should also check out actual screen readers as modern screen > readers do interact with javascript to some extent and that should be > taken into account. There is a plugin for Firefox called Fire Vox > (http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/) that I've heard about but haven't > used. > > Hope that helps, > Judah > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Sandra Clark <slli...@shayna.com> wrote: >> >> A good tutorial to start with would be >> >> http://jimthatcher.com/webcourse1.htm >> >> Basically, your site has to work with Javascript turned off. Check things >> by using just the keyboard, I've audited sites with date widgets where > yes, >> the text could be entered manually, but the keyboard hit the date picker >> first and there was no way to tab out of it. >> >> >> Sandra Clark >> ============= >> http://www.shayna.com >> Training and Consulting in CSS and Accessibility >> Team Fusebox >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Gerald Guido [mailto:gerald.gu...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 1:22 PM >> To: cf-talk >> Subject: (sot) CF and Section 508 compliance & a 508 compliant date/time >> picker >> >> >> We just picked up a site that needs to be 508 compliant. I am getting a >> crash course right now. I (or any of us really) never made a site/app that >> needed to be 508 compliant. >> >> My only concern is the use of JS. It is basically a data entry and > reporting >> app and there is going to be a TON of form fields. We plan to use JS for >> form validation (CFForm and/or other means if need be) and was wondering > if >> using CFForm will be an issue. Yes I know... we shouldn't use CFForm etc.. >> but it is uber-crunch time and that is what our code generator spits out. >> Along the lines of validation, will we need server side validation as > well? >> >> Also.. Does anyone know of any 508 compliant date/time pickers? Those are >> going to be the only JS widgets that may be an issue. >> >> And lastly, anyone care to pass on any general advice or gotchas and/or >> advice on that to be aware of and/or be careful of etc. >> >> As always, many TIA. >> >> G! >> -- >> Gerald Guido >> http://www.myinternetisbroken.com >> >> >> "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." >> -- Thomas A. Edison >> >> >> >> >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:319667 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
