Preamble
We are adding accessibility to some parts of the web portal. One of these parts includes the jQuery UI Datepicker, as an inline widget, rather than a popup.
We searched the Internet and read, as well as on the jQuery UI forum: messages like New for JQuery-UI and working on datepicker 508 Compliance , Inline datepicker cannot change the month using the keyboard , JQuery Datepicker - Key events - goals? where people asked about accessibility or offered to work on it.
We saw (abandoned?) Access with accessibility support / rewrite from kbwood there: a forum post and source code . It uses a handmade template engine.
Then there, the datepicker rewrite the sample , which uses the jQuery tmpl plugin as a template mechanism. It also has WAI ARIA attributes, but it is based on the jQuery tmpl plugin, which in turn was adandoned (we loved that it was the official version, it would be almost perfect for us).
In addition, jQuery UI 1.9 RC is turned off and does not seem to contain any major changes on this side. So here is my question:
Question
Do you know what is the most modern, where to start if we want to add accessibility? Is there something already half-baked that we can pick up and continue to work on it?
It’s better not to start with an abandoned branch, so as not to drop everything on the next jQuery UI update.
Thank you all for your attention.
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