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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.
>
> So my vision for wanting to enforce a bit of accessibility on the web is
> narrow(?), but no one wants to move forward with the most simple of
> modifications to make it easier to implement accessibility. The most basic
> of things to do would be to update the JavaDocs for the API to say:
>
> "NOTE: you should always include an AttributeModifier/Appender (or roll your
> own implementation) to include the title attribute on every link. here's
> some examples, etc"
>
> Or would that be too much bloat as well?
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>
> Steve
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> On 28 Oct 2008, at 15:35, Martijn Dashorst wrote:
>
>> 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
>> how we can make accessibility easy to implement, while not raping our
>> API?
>>
>> Martijn
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Steve Swinsburg
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I alluded to this in a feature request for a new constructor of the
>>> ExternalLink component in the hope that it would start the ball rolling
>>> on
>>> getting some accessibility happening in the rest of Wicket, but just
>>> 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!
>>> 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
>>> it.
>>> If you don't manually add it, you won't get a title on your link.
>>>
>>> Come on, lets get some accessibility happening. Then we can tout Wicket
>>> as
>>> being a accessible-by-design as well!
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> any
>>>>>> reason can break 508 compliance ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> Nino Martinez Wael
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