Re: Program Flow

Joe

I'm not sure what you are saying. We all know that making web applications
accessible to all can be done, alas it seems common (and I am not guilt free
in this) that we just don't have the time and it costs too much?

Should we or shouldn't we?

My answer is we should (sod the cost)!

Maurice


-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: 11 June 2008 20:45
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Program Flow

Maurice O'Prey wrote:

I appreciate the tip Maurice, but what accessibility standards should I
add? If you're >>talking about browsers, I try to support Firefox, and

IE

(sometimes).

Nathan

Its not a tip, it is law!

Section 508 in the US and the DDA in the UK. Try tabbing, access keys,
alternate text for starters (some people cannot use a mouse and your demo
does not work without one).

Sorry I know we are all guilty of not taking accessibility fully into
account but when you publish something to a world wide list you should
(IMHO).

This idea - that of standards compliance, whatever the flavor - is
perhaps one of the biggest arguments against rolling your own user
interface. Even among the frameworks you have wide variations. Of all
of them, only Dojo (AFAIK) supports both i18n and a11y out of the box
(that's internationalization and accessibility to us green screeners).

Joe