On 03/03/2014 02:00 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
On 03/02/2014 09:58 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> I'll +1 but my concerns are as follows:
>
> - The Accessibility section makes no statements about Cockpit's
> a11y or required state of a11y; is the web ui designed in such a
> way to be usable by those using screen readers? I've not used it
> but with the general popularity if JS frameworks that aren't
> necessarily screen-reader friendly it is a concern.
This is a really good question, actually. I'm CCing the Cockpit
development list to get a response from them.
Hi, good question! We in the Cockpit team haven't really talked about
before. Thanks for bringing it up!
The framework we're using in Cockpit is Patternfly [1] that buils on top
of Bootstrap [2], and it seems there is a plugin available that makes
things vastly better for screen readers.
https://www.paypal-engineering.com/2014/01/28/bootstrap-accessibility-plu...
1.
https://www.patternfly.org/
2.
http://getbootstrap.com/
- Andreas