On 6/21/05, Jeff Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The company I work for is developing an application for a federal > client and I would like to use some of the components from the t-deli > site. The one in question is the example(xtile) they have where you > type in a textbox and it starts doing the search on the keypresses. > The client wants this ability when searching for ssn's. My boss seems > to think this won't pass 508 compliance; was just wondering if anyone > knows if this would be the case. Will we run across other issues with > making the site more interactive for the user?
XTile is a not part of the Tacos component library. Generally speaking, AJAX approaches will make it harder to achieve accessibility (ie. I have no idea how screenreaders handle dynamic DOM replacements, probably not very well). On the other hand, as long as you use it in a conservative fashion where the functionality works fine with javascript disabled, you can most likely make things degrade in a usable way. The Tacos library in particular works like this (http://tacos.sf.net/). You should try some tests with some relevant products... A related note: to me auto-completion on social-security number searches sounds like a profoundly bad idea, as far as privacy is concerned. Not sure what federal regulations require, but one would hope that the requirements are at least as stringent as credit card security in ecommerce apps (which I'm familiar with, and which even with all the restrictions remains unsecure in many ways :). You definitely should not be able to just type in 12* to get all numbers starting with that :) regards, viktor --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
