Re: Deploying (accessible) XForms today?

Charles F Wiecha ha scritto:
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> Erik writes...
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>>>and Ajax is here to stay, which makes this is a very important topic.
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> Perhaps one angle to explore here is to work toward AJAX toolkits having
> more direct support for XForms.  Many of them are now introducing data
> models, model-view binding notations, and event systems.  If these were
> aligned more closely with XForms we'd have a much better story not only
> for accessibiliy but in general...
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> Charlie Wiecha

Excellent point, btw it would be a great start if AJAX-based XForms implementations offered interfaces and APIs that are sexier to the more general AJAX crowd and/or that make it easy to integrate with frenzier libraries... 

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> *Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com>*
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> Raman,
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> I don't think that the fact that today's implementations do not meet
> accessibility requirements necessarily means they cannot. At least, I
> would like to see compelling arguments in that direction, and clearer
> technical details about exactly what is lost (and shouldn't be lost) by
> going from XForms to XHTML.
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> IE is not supporting XForms anytime soon, and Ajax is here to stay,
> which makes this is a very important topic.
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> I think ignorance of the requirements for accessibility is a more
> important reason why most Ajax-based web applications maybe lack in
> accessibility. We are unfortunately as guilty as anyone here.
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> -Erik
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> T.V Raman wrote:
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>>>From what I've seen coming out of some of the server side
>> processors, I'm afraid your're correct
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>> Allan Beaufour writes:
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>>  > Since not everybody is using a browser with XForms capabilities, if
>>  > you want to deploy XForms today, server-side transformations might be
>>  > needed. But how about accessibility? I fear that you loose that then?
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>>  > /me steps aside and hopes for some good answers from the
> server-side crowd :)
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>>  > ... Allan
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