thanks, this is pretty good
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Willie Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Adel: > > Adding ARIA to AJAX widgets would be the right thing to do as a content > provider. As a user, the right thing is then to use a browser that > supports ARIA and accessibility well (i.e., Firefox 3). > > You can read about some of the great work done by Scott Haeger from the > Orca team here: > > http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Firefox/ARIAWidgets > http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Firefox/LiveRegions > > The "Other Resources" section at the bottom of the ARIAWidgets page has > tons of information on ARIA. Plus, David Bolter, who's a member of the > GNOME Accessibilty community has tons of experience working on ARIA in > Dojo. > > Hope this helps! > > Will > > > > adel wrote: > > yesterday on #a11y > > > > 10:31< adel> hey, I need a little help, I am building javascript > > widgets, am doing my best making the widgets accessible, currently I > > use W3C's ARIA documents, dojo are doing the same but unlike dojo, I > > only care (the accessible thing) about GNOME and its technology, is > > ARIA the best approach to make dynamic web site accessible to GNOME > > users? and how do I test those ARIA roles on GNOME? > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Willie Walker<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm retitling this because I was just deleting GSOC mail -- my inbox is > >> flooding and I needed to do some drastic filtering. Many thanks to > >> Behdad for seeing this message and thinking of me. :-) > >> > >> For HTML accessibility, the best support is provided by the Gecko engine > >> that's in Firefox 3. We've worked very closely with Mozilla on this > >> work, and we have pretty decent support for emerging web technologies > >> like AJAX/ARIA/LiveRegions as a result. It was a VERY significant > effort. > >> > >> If anyone is doing any sophisticated presentation of web content, I'd > >> really recommend they use the Gecko engine that FF3 uses, and I'm happy > >> to hear this is on the Yelp radar screen. I just cannot imagine the > >> effort it will take to add full a11y support to some other HTML widget. > >> > >> Will > >> > >> Shaun McCance wrote: > >> > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 08:18 -0500, Luis Villa wrote: > >> >> One followup, one other suggestion, one followup. > >> >> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Luis Villa<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> >>> * "widgets": Vista, OSX, and KDE4 all have > widgets/gadgets/Kthingies > >> >>> that are pretty, very easy to use, very easy to develop (since > they > >> >>> are web-based), and which display more information when needed > while > >> >>> staying hidden when not needed (both unlike our panel applets.) > Some > >> >>> work has already been done on doing this with gtk-webkit[1]- > perhaps > >> >>> that could be built on? (It seems to me that from a user > perspective > >> >>> this approach is really superior to applets and what we should be > >> >>> focusing on long-term instead of reworking applets, but YMMV.) > >> >> Both screenlets and gdesklets have been pointed out to me offlist. I > >> >> was aware of both of them, but I didn't mention them here because I > >> >> don't think writing our own custom widgets is the way to go- we > should > >> >> (at least to start) join the html-based widget bandwagon everyone > else > >> >> is already on so that we can benefit from that base of applications. > >> >> Perhaps adding HTML widget support to one of them is the right > thing, > >> >> though. > >> > > >> > Given that the Foundation has just earmarked US$50,000 for > >> > accessibility-related bounties, I'm curious how HTML widgets > >> > fare with accessibility. I often hear that dynamic web 2.0 > >> > applications are suboptimal in terms of accessiblity, and > >> > this would naturally translate to suboptimal accessibility > >> > in HTML widgets. > >> > > >> > I'd be very interested to see an analysis from one of our > >> > accessibility experts on this subject. > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Shaun > >> > > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > desktop-devel-list mailing list > >> > [email protected] > >> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> desktop-devel-list mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > >> > > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
