[OpenLayers-Dev] OpenLayers and accessibility

[Thijs Brentjens]

Hi Roald,

Not sure about that (I'm not a lawyer, fortunately), but I think 
changing the license will be very difficult, considering the usage of 
ExtJS. But I'll ask.

Thijs

On 02/01/2012 02:20 AM, Roald de Wit wrote:
> Hi Thijs,
>
> The license incompatibility (GPL v3) may become an issue if code gets 
> used from your project. Is there any way you could contribute the 
> relevant code to OpenLayers (which is under the 2-Clause BSD license), 
> provided that C2C wants to incorporate your code of course?
>
> Thanks, Roald
>
> On 01/02/12 03:31, Thijs Brentjens wrote:
>> Hi Eric.
>>
>> In the Netherlands we have Web accessibility guidelines. For a 
>> project (called GEOZET) in which these guidelines are very important, 
>> we have made some changes and additions using ExtJS. So I'm not sure 
>> if that is okay with you as well. I haven't been coding myself, but 
>> code can be found at:
>> https://github.com/geozet/geozet. The dir ./src/ contains javascript 
>> code.
>>
>> Added functionality for accessibility includes:
>> - another PanZoomBar, that is accessible using the keyboard. For code 
>> see: 
>> https://github.com/geozet/geozet/blob/master/src/Geozet/lib/Geozet/widgets/PanZoomBar.js
>> - a new renderer, for vector points, in HTML. This way the popups are 
>> also accessible with the keyboard.
>> - sorting of features in the map, so users can use Tab to go through 
>> the features on the map from left to right, top to bottom.
>>
>> The "alt" attribute is not used on the map images though. Don't 
>> remember why we didn't do that.
>>
>> The final result is not online yet, but the code is open source. If 
>> you'd like to see a working demo (with slightly data in it) in 
>> action, I'm hosting one here: http://nieuwsinkaart.nl/geozetnijmegen/
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Thijs
>>
>> On 01/31/2012 04:47 PM, Eric Lemoine wrote:
>>> Hi devs
>>>
>>> Some of us at Camptocamp are currently extending an OpenLayers
>>> application to make it accessible [*]. For this work we need to modify
>>> OpenLayers in a number of areas. Here are the features/modifications
>>> we are considering:
>>>
>>> - navigate the map with the keyboard when the map div gets the focus
>>> (currently the KeyboardDefaults control works with the document only)
>>> - make the panel buttons accessible, by using appropriate markups
>>> (<a>+<img>  in place of<div>)
>>> - add "alt" attributes to<img>  elements
>>>
>>> We'd like to avoid duplicated effort, so we're interested to know if
>>> others are working, or have worked, on making OpenLayers more
>>> accessible.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> [*]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_accessibility>
>>>
>>
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