Developing UI Plugins

Developing UI Plugins


Thanks all for working on UI. I work at a large government
organization, who hosts, develops, and maintains tools for mining
biological data (bioinformatics).
We have tried a few libraries, including Ext Js, which we abandoned
because of accessibility issues, and steep learning curve for
developers.
We finally chose jQuery because of its popularity and its quality, and
because of UI's potential, and have been building on top of it (new
widgets etc) along with a declarative layer which allows you to tell
your page what widgets you want to use and the page just loads the
appropriate widgets and dependencies. When we build widgets, we keep
accessibility foremost in mind. For example, we built a data grid,
that is fully accessible and has features such as paging, serverside
loading, scrolling, but consists of one table, with thead etc (unlike
all I've seen out there)
I've looked at some of the ways we could get involved. Can we:
a) contribute code?
b) Share our declarative layer with you?
PS. one of our developers is a co-author of a book on Ajax that ranks
pretty high in Amazon...