Working for The Man we are finally cracking down on 508 compliance here. I’m curious if anyone has read any good books on the subject they could recommend?
I do a lot of things for accessibility already but I’m sure I could do more. I’m also struggling with accessibility while implementing things like jQuery.
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The actual rules can be found at http://www.section508.gov.
A good book on Accessibility is Jim Thatcher’s Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance. http://www.amazon.com/Web-Acce.....amp;sr=1-1
While Section 508 is undergoing a refresh, its still at Version 1 right now and will be for at least another year. This precludes a lot of javascript, but if you want to take a chance or at least start looking at it seriously, you might want to look at Dojo, it has the accessibility aspects built into it. http://www.dojotoolkit.org.
JQuery had a plugin called JAria which pulled in accessibility and I know they are going to put it into the core, but I haven’t been able to find out when.
Thanks for the resources! I will check out JAria and see what the status of that is…