Re: wicket and 508 compilance

[Steve Swinsburg]

lol ok agreed, DropDownChoice is far over the top, but someone let all those methods get through. Perhaps its time to start rolling some up and deprecating others. And getting some examples happening about how best to use the DropDownChoice component.

On 28 Oct 2008, at 15:50, James Carman wrote:

DropDownChoice

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Steve Swinsburg
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What are you referring to when you say DDC? The Dewey Decimal System? Used by pretty much every library around the world making it really easy to find

books? I'd call that accessible.


narrow(?), but no one wants to move forward with the most simple of

of things to do would be to update the JavaDocs for the API to say:


some examples, etc"

Or would that be too much bloat as well?


Steve





On 28 Oct 2008, at 15:35, Martijn Dashorst wrote:

So my vision for wanting to enforce a bit of accessibility on the web is modifications to make it easier to implement accessibility. The most basic "NOTE: you should always include an AttributeModifier/Appender (or roll your own implementation) to include the title attribute on every link. here's

There are lots of ways of making accessibility happening, but throwing more arguments to constructors isn't one of 'm. Ever took a short look

at DDC?

Instead of taking this narrow vision, perhaps start a discussion of

API?

Martijn

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Steve Swinsburg
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how we can make accessibility easy to implement, while not raping our

I alluded to this in a feature request for a new constructor of the

on

about
everyone that commented said it should not be implemented.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-1878

Wont fix?!  Its section 13.1 of the accessibility document!

it.
If you don't manually add it, you won't get a title on your link.


as
being a accessible-by-design as well!

Steve

ExternalLink component in the hope that it would start the ball rolling getting some accessibility happening in the rest of Wicket, but just Yes you can add it manually, but you can do many things manually. If the constructor is there it allows people to automatically take advantage of Come on, lets get some accessibility happening. Then we can tout Wicket On 28 Oct 2008, at 15:07, Nino Saturnino Martinez Vazquez Wael wrote:

Of course you should be aware that some components might not be
compliant,
but I think that's mostly in wicketstuff..

Nino Saturnino Martinez Vazquez Wael wrote:

You mean like WAI triple A?

http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG1AAA-Conformance

No it won't break it but it wont enforce it either..

miro wrote:

for
any
reason can break 508 compliance ?

I am new to wicket and want to build web application using wicket, my application should be 508 compliance , so want to know using wicket

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Nino Martinez Wael
Java Specialist @ Jayway DK
http://www.jayway.dk
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