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Okay, fine, here's a better example. People with disabilities. Is your JavaScript ADA-compliant? Is it business-savvy to ignore your legal requirements towards

Okay, fine, here's a better example. People with disabilities. Is your JavaScript ADA-compliant? Is it business-savvy to ignore your legal requirements towards them?

kls 15y ago
Yes, A good toolkit like Dojo not only is WAI and A11Y compliant, but it exceeds the abilities of web 1.0 framworks, instead of having things like high contrast plugins for browsers they are baked right into the toolkit and are activated based on browser meta data. Part of my consultancy is web accessibility modernization through JavaScript toolkits. Web 1.0 frameworks, as of today, cannot comply with the upcoming legislation, but the larger JavaScript toolkits are already there and have the most complete implementations available. Further the current set of laws only require that a screen reader such as JAWS works on a site which JavaScript has no bearing on, we do tons and tons of JAWS testing in my organization. The future of the web is being increasingly implemented in JavaScript toolkits, the shift has already happened, as such the toolkits are starting to surpass the offerings that are available in the old server side frameworks. Because they are increasingly getting developer mind share. Accessibility is one of those areas that they are way out in front on. http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/dijit/a11y/statement.html http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/dijit/a11y/statement....
- MostAwesomeDude 15y ago
  People aren't using good toolkits. People are open-coding everything. You might have gotten it right, but Joe JS Developer isn't. Have you considered slimming down your walls of text? You seem to be using lots of words to say "no u," and it's tempting me to draw parallels between the simplicity of the JS-less Web and the relative complications of the JS-ful Web.

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Okay, fine, here's a better example. People with disabilities. Is your JavaScript ADA-compliant? Is it business-savvy to ignore your legal requirements towards

by MostAwesomeDude 15y ago

Okay, fine, here's a better example. People with disabilities. Is your JavaScript ADA-compliant? Is it business-savvy to ignore your legal requirements towards them?

kls 15y ago
Yes, A good toolkit like Dojo not only is WAI and A11Y compliant, but it exceeds the abilities of web 1.0 framworks, instead of having things like high contrast plugins for browsers they are baked right into the toolkit and are activated based on browser meta data. Part of my consultancy is web accessibility modernization through JavaScript toolkits. Web 1.0 frameworks, as of today, cannot comply with the upcoming legislation, but the larger JavaScript toolkits are already there and have the most complete implementations available. Further the current set of laws only require that a screen reader such as JAWS works on a site which JavaScript has no bearing on, we do tons and tons of JAWS testing in my organization. The future of the web is being increasingly implemented in JavaScript toolkits, the shift has already happened, as such the toolkits are starting to surpass the offerings that are available in the old server side frameworks. Because they are increasingly getting developer mind share. Accessibility is one of those areas that they are way out in front on. http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/dijit/a11y/statement.html http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/dijit/a11y/statement....
- MostAwesomeDude 15y ago
  People aren't using good toolkits. People are open-coding everything. You might have gotten it right, but Joe JS Developer isn't. Have you considered slimming down your walls of text? You seem to be using lots of words to say "no u," and it's tempting me to draw parallels between the simplicity of the JS-less Web and the relative complications of the JS-ful Web.