Wanted to point folks to these more accessible versions for some of these jQuery functions

http://hanshillen.github.com/aegisdemo/

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Mike,

I wasn't aware of Aegis, but saw one of your "promotional" posts while looking at Accordion Menu.

We are just starting a conversion of a static site to D7 and are trying to make sure that accessibility issues are addressed as completely as possible.

As a Drupal "end-user", more or less, I am guessing that something like Accordion Menu will work for us regardless of whether the maintainer/s integrate Aegis jQuery functions or not. And my take is that your posts about Aegis are directed at module developers and not typical users such as myself. True?

As an aspiring module developer, though, it would be interesting to see something on drupal.org that is titled "What you need to do to get Aegis in your module/s...Why you want to add Aegis...Step 1...Step 2.....See? Easy!" Maybe that is too basic or would insult jQuery developer's intelligence, but it would work for me.

Also interested to know if you think your postings got any traction.

Thanks,

Jim

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D7 is a great starting point, but it's still going to take a lot of work to make your site WCAG 2.0 AA.

I haven't evaluated the default jQuery accordion menu but I suspect that if you want to include this functionality and be accessible you're going to have to hack a bunch. My posts are definitely geared for module developers, this wouldn't likely be as easy as swapping out one library for another. Although, frankly I don't know.

My goal was to take an interesting demo and bring it forward to others who are working specifically on this feature set. With Drupal 7 taking accessibility more seriously it's good for the contrib modules to do what they can.

Having a document like that would be useful. Think it would work for most. I'm not going to be the one to write it however.

My postings got some feedback, but I was hoping for more. Partly I think Aegis needs to do the work to reach out to the jQuery community directly & I don't think they have yet.