Hi Shaun, 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. > >
There are many working hard on this. and it has required coordination between browsers (e.g. FF), web2.0 toolkits (e.g. dojo), and AT (e.g. Orca). It is happening :) Here are some resources to get you started: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Accessible_DHTML http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-roadmap/ http://dojotoolkit.org/projects/dijit Ping me anytime to chat about it (davidb on IRC). cheers, David _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
