GWT and European Accessibility Act

[Lonzak]

The European 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]

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.

[Frank Hossfeld]

Any help is appreciated. If you would like to contribute, feel free to do so.

[Lonzak]

Thank you Colin for the heads up.

I just finished a minor change which improves one aspect of UA:

https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/pull/10108

Colin Alworth schrieb am Montag, 24. März 2025 um 17:32:52 UTC+1: