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dw_accessibility2010-04-29 07:11 pm
jadelennox) wrote in dw_accessibility2010-04-29 07:11 pm
Accessibility testing needed!
One awesome thing which has already come out of our association with Google Summer of Code is our introduction to the developers of Dojo, another open source project. Dojo is a JavaScript toolkit whose developers claim they are the first JavaScript toolkit with full accessibility support in their base widget set.
Using Dojo wouldn't be a trivial decision. Dreamwidth developers have put a lot of work into learning jQuery, and we don't want to move in entirely different direction and less there's a good reason.
So what would be fabulous is if we could get people really hammering on the widgets the Dojo people programmed to be accessible. Try them out -- are they accessible for you? Do they work with your needs, your adaptive technology, your browser? Are they intuitive?
At the same time, we should test the jQuery widgets, to see if we find those any more or less accessible.
This is a valuable test for everyone with any accessibility needs to do, whether you use adaptive technology or not.
I made a page on the wiki for JavaScript widget testing that links to all the tests we should do. There's a lot there! I don't expect anyone will do all of them; goodness knows I tuckered out about three quarters of the way through and I haven't even written up my test results. Still, if people could do some of these tests and report on how well they work for you, that would be totally awesome. You can report as comments to this post or in the various sections of that wiki page. I made sections called "results" after the link to each test, so you can just list the results you had for specific tests.
and thank you for anything you can do, even if it's only brief!
Using Dojo wouldn't be a trivial decision. Dreamwidth developers have put a lot of work into learning jQuery, and we don't want to move in entirely different direction and less there's a good reason.
So what would be fabulous is if we could get people really hammering on the widgets the Dojo people programmed to be accessible. Try them out -- are they accessible for you? Do they work with your needs, your adaptive technology, your browser? Are they intuitive?
At the same time, we should test the jQuery widgets, to see if we find those any more or less accessible.
This is a valuable test for everyone with any accessibility needs to do, whether you use adaptive technology or not.
I made a page on the wiki for JavaScript widget testing that links to all the tests we should do. There's a lot there! I don't expect anyone will do all of them; goodness knows I tuckered out about three quarters of the way through and I haven't even written up my test results. Still, if people could do some of these tests and report on how well they work for you, that would be totally awesome. You can report as comments to this post or in the various sections of that wiki page. I made sections called "results" after the link to each test, so you can just list the results you had for specific tests.
and thank you for anything you can do, even if it's only brief!
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