[Nfb-web] accessible ajax

[Steve Jacobson]

Peter,

I would only caution that nothing in this says whether screen readers will support the particular environment and whether there are browser support issues.  As I 
understand it, there is more work going on with FireFox and AJAX than Internet Explorer.  While this will change, the road ahead is a little rough but at least there is 
progress being made.

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:39:06 -0500, Peter Donahue wrote:

>Good afternoon again folks,

>    I have encountered Web sites which implement AJAX for displaying
>particular content and allowing one to update portions of Web pages without
>needing to refresh the entire page every time such up-dates are done. This
>is pretty cool stuff when we can learn how to implement AJAX on our
>affiliate Web sites and ensure their accessibility. The information below
>will help us do that.

>Peter Donahue

>From: "Aaron Leventhal" <aaronlev at moonset.net>
>To: <programmingblind at freelists.org>
>Subject: Re:             Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 9:30 AM

>You should probably be aware of the work IBM, Mozilla, W3C, Opera and
>others are doing in the area of AJAX and DHTML accessibility.

>It's pretty exciting stuff -- making Web 2.0 accessibility possible. The
>major areas are keyboard accessibility, screen reader support of
>JavaScript widgets, making live changes on a page accessible, drag and
>drop, and support for landmarks in a page.

>Here's a FAQ about it -- don't be confused about the fact that it
>discusses HTML 5 (which doesn't exist yet). I wrote the FAQ to
>facilitate communication with the HTML 5 standards group:
>http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/ARIA:_Accessible_Rich_Internet_Applications/Relationship_to_HTML_FAQ

>The easiest way to take advantage of it at this point would be to use
>Dojo, because of all the work that has been going on putting ARIA
>support into Dojo.  You can also use ARIA directly. In addition, we'd
>love to get help from more developers to put ARIA support into other
>open source Javascript toolkits, such that users of Scriptaculous,
>JQuery, etc. would get accessibility for free.

>- Aaron



>jaffar wrote:
>> Hi All.  I have found an accessible, free and open source ajax
>> development framework known as Open Lazlo.  It consists of a web based
>> development framework and a tomcat server which is directed to port
>> 8080 on your pc. Although this is strictly an ajax framework, it is
>> based on the LZX, xml based language which provides for very tight xml
>> syntax.  The website to download this app is, should you be interested,
>> www.openlaszlo.org/
>> It is also worth noting that you will be able to create desktop apps
>> with this framework.  The only other dependency you will need to run
>> Open Lazlo is the java development kit consisting of the JRE and the
>> sdk which you can obtain from the java website.  The framework itself
>> is very easy to master, and the accompanying documentation is very
>> good and comprehensive.  Cheers!
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