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[Leon]

With GWT, you can basically create any html structure you would like it to have by yourself. So it's not that hard to generate an accessibility act compliant webapplication.

What we did is hire an accessibility expert and have him define a fully compliant html with accompanying css.

His design encompassed all components that we are using (like table's, panels, li, tabpanels, popups, buttons etc etc..)

Our team then used GWT to have the components we need generate the html according to the designed html structure.

This also enabled us to use the same css as was defined. So now we can also outsource the css maintenance.

There were a few tuning issues (as expected), but now we (nearly) have a fully accessibility act compliant UI.

This was a little under 4 man month project. 2 months to get the accessibility expert up to speed and finish all components. 

And 1-2 months to adapt the components we were already using to generating that html.

I'm not sure it is fair to expect the GWT project to generate fully compliant html. 

The focus of GWT imo should be on the fact that you develop the UI in java, and have GWT compile java to working javascript. 

That to me is the biggest USP and that should work flawlessly (as it always has).

What your application generates in html structure is up to you as user of GWT.

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GWT and European Accessibility Act

Lonzak <tvtr...@nepatec.de>: Mar 24 09:25AM -0700 The *European Accessibility Act* and its national counterparts are immanent. So I would be interested in the measures you are taking to ensure accessibility of your GWT UI.   I just stumbled over the gwt ARIA project which seems a good starting point:   https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.gwtproject.aria/gwt-aria   However the project is still RC2 (since 3 years) - any plans for a final release? Or has it been surpassed by something else?   Thanks for you input

Colin Alworth <co...@colinalworth.com>: Mar 24 09:32AM -0700 That project (and other refactored modules) consist of code already present in gwt-user.jar, and is part of a larger effort to migrate away from JSNI and Generator to provide compatibility with J2CL. If you are continuing to use the GWT compiler, there is no direct impact right now, and no important push to migrate. The limiting work here is related to i18n, and is currently blocked by a lack of resources/time/funding to investigate how to improve closure-compiler's ability to optimize some GWT/J2CL code. From my own perspective, interest has somewhat waned in J2CL, so while I continue to be interested in completing this effort, improving GWT itself (newer Java language/sdk support, better optimized output, etc) is currently a higher priority for me and most of the users I interact with.   All of the same classes can be found in gwt-user.jar, see https://www.gwtproject.org/javadoc/latest/com/google/gwt/aria/client/package-summary.html and https://www.gwtproject.org/doc/latest/DevGuideA11y for more information.   On Monday, March 24, 2025 at 11:25:58 AM UTC-5 Lonzak wrote:

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So good

2025年3月25日(火) 6:41 Leon <leon.p...@gmail.com>:

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