Re: (sot) CF and Section 508 compliance & a 508 compliant date/time picker

2009-02-25 Thread Gerald Guido
Thank you Sandra for the tute. Good stuff. I would also like thank everyone for their assistance. I have a good handle on things. I was a bit confused by the JS aspect. The language in the actual specs is a bit hazy. Again, thanx! G! On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Sandra Clark wrote: > >

Re: (sot) CF and Section 508 compliance & a 508 compliant date/time picker

2009-02-21 Thread Judah McAuley
y 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) C

RE: (sot) CF and Section 508 compliance & a 508 compliant date/time picker

2009-02-21 Thread Sandra Clark
Auley [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.o

Re: (sot) CF and Section 508 compliance & a 508 compliant date/time picker

2009-02-20 Thread Judah McAuley
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 acc

RE: (sot) CF and Section 508 compliance & a 508 compliant date/time picker

2009-02-20 Thread Sandra Clark
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 p

Re: (sot) CF and Section 508 compliance & a 508 compliant date/time picker

2009-02-20 Thread s. isaac dealey
> If we have time we will roll our own, prolly using spry as long as it > doesn't conflict with the Dynarch widget like said it could/would. You can work around that by disabling Spry's date hints for date-validated text fields. -- s. isaac dealey ^ new epoch isn't it time for a change?

Re: (sot) CF and Section 508 compliance & a 508 compliant date/time picker

2009-02-20 Thread Gerald Guido
>> I'm curious, what are the current torch and pitchfork arguments against using CFFORM? No reason for me to bring it up other than to avoid having the post derailed. I have seen it brought up a few times tends though not as bad as evaluate(). I have been using CF form for years with out a proble

Re: (sot) CF and Section 508 compliance & a 508 compliant date/time picker

2009-02-20 Thread s. isaac dealey
> >>Any date-picker should be fine, provided that the widget is used to > populate a text field that can also be manually entered. > > Thanx Ike, > So if I understand correctly, if I have a date/time widgets that can can be > used as (or considered to be) a convenience or an adjunct, but not the

Re: (sot) CF and Section 508 compliance & a 508 compliant date/time picker

2009-02-20 Thread Gerald Guido
>>Any date-picker should be fine, provided that the widget is used to populate a text field that can also be manually entered. Thanx Ike, So if I understand correctly, if I have a date/time widgets that can can be used as (or considered to be) a convenience or an adjunct, but not the primary and/

RE: (sot) CF and Section 508 compliance & a 508 compliant date/time picker

2009-02-20 Thread William Seiter
Gerald, There are web developers and programmers who make it part of their life work to make sure everything that is created by them is Section 508 compatible. Frankly, it is the right thing to do. Being under 'crunch', I feel for you. Unless you are editing a site that was already compliant,

Re: (sot) CF and Section 508 compliance & a 508 compliant date/time picker

2009-02-20 Thread s. isaac dealey
> 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. Any date-picker should be fine, provided that the widget is used to populate a text field that can also be manually entered. I integrated the Dynarch widget into the

Re: (sot) CF and Section 508 compliance & a 508 compliant date/time picker

2009-02-20 Thread Justin Scott
Gerald Guido wrote: > 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. I'm curious, what are the current torch and pitchfork arguments against using CFFORM? In the past it was terrible and I st