Grouper Developers Forum

["GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing" <>]

--On 07 July 2010 15:01 -0400 Emily Eisbruch 
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 wrote:

> [AI]  (Rob) will ask (Gary) to look at the Fluid project to learn more
> about accessibility of UIs
I just did a bit of searching around and came up with 
<http://www.webaim.org/techniques/ajax/> which links to 
<http://webaim.org/techniques/aria/>. ARIA (Accessibility of Rich Internet 
Applications) is a W3C initiative which modern browsers / screen readers 
should understand - effectively additional attributes for HTML elements. 
The Fluid project is clearly aiming to be ARIA compliant though difficult 
to judge how completely it complies just now. There is a JQuery plugin for 
ARIA: <http://www.outstandingelephant.com/jaria/> and various widgets which 
claim to be ARIA compliant.

Going forward it would seem to make sense to piggy back on the efforts of 
others i.e. use an AJAX framework which supports ARIA and where possible 
use existing compliant widgets rather than create our own. JQuery and Fluid 
may be good options - used in uPortal, but there are alternatives.

Ultimately we can try to be accessible, but without feedback from 
individuals who depend on the accessibility features it is difficult to 
know how successful we have been.

Gary





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GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing