ARIA/Section 508 keyboard accessibility ?

[fjfdez]

Hello,

I would know if smartclient/samrtgwt have a full support for ARIA/Section 508 keyboard accessibility ?

Regards.
Francisco.

[Isomorphic]

Yes, SmartGWT has ARIA support. It can be enabled by simply setting:

   isc.screenReader = true;

.. after SmartGWT loads and before any components are drawn. Note that if you do this from onModuleLoad() via JSNI it should be "$wnd.isc.screenReader = true;" instead.

This currently works best with "fleet" skin, Firefox 2.0+, WindowEyes 5.5+, in "browse mode" (shortcut key is Ctrl-Shift-A by default).

When you try this out, notice how SmartGWT's buttons, checkboxes, grids, listBoxes, etc, all of which are "synthetic" (not based on the browser's built-in
controls) are properly read as the appropriate type of control.

Note that because SmartGWT supports multi-column tree displays and the WAI-ARIA group hasn't really covered this, all TreeGrid controls are read as tables, and the "level" of the node is announced as part of the data.

[murfips]

Hello, i have an application wich uses smartgwt components (like buttons, treegrids, listgrids etc).

I would know how i can add accessibity support to my app.
I have readed in this forum that i can do:
isc.screenReader = true;

But i dont know what is an isc object, and i dont know how i can use it.

Some one could explain me how i can use it?

Thanks all!

[mgbf]

Just create a native java method like below an call it in the beginning of your onModuleLoad()

public native void enableScreenReader() /*- {
   $wnd.isc.screenReader = true;
} -*/;

You can learn more about JSNI in http://code.google.com/intl/pt-BR/webtoolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideCodingBasicsJSNI.html