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New to JQuery-UI & working on datepicker 508 Compliance
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11 years ago
I got some community service tasking from my company to work on making datepicker 508 compliant so I figured I'd introduce myself and get an idea of where to start.
Some background, I've been work at Vecna Technologies, Inc. for the past 5 years or so as a software developer on web applications. Specifically I'm working on check-in kiosk applications for hospitals (Vecna Medical Homepage). My background before staring here was in robotics and mechanical engineering. I'm familiar with git and js and have worked with jQuery and jQuery-ui in the past. Most of the coding I do regularly is in Java.
Anyway I asked for some community service tasking (we're required to do a minimum of 1 hr per week of CS & are allowed to track up to 4 hrs per week) and was given the task to make the datepicker widget 508 compliant.
Couple of questions:
1) Should I enter a ticket and if so should I split up the "508 compliance" issue into a ticket for each requirement (i.e. keyboard navigation, verifying alt-tags... etc.). I haven't been able to find any tickets for either keyboard navigation (need to be able to fully navigate the date picker w/ the keyboard) or 508 compliance in general (If anyone knows of any, please let me know!).
2) Should I work on the refactored datepicker for 1.9 (datepicker refactor) or fork current datepicker and work on that?
3) If anyone has done similar things with other jQuery widgets or have a direction that I should start looking, please let me know.
Thanks!
~Josh
Some background, I've been work at Vecna Technologies, Inc. for the past 5 years or so as a software developer on web applications. Specifically I'm working on check-in kiosk applications for hospitals (Vecna Medical Homepage). My background before staring here was in robotics and mechanical engineering. I'm familiar with git and js and have worked with jQuery and jQuery-ui in the past. Most of the coding I do regularly is in Java.
Anyway I asked for some community service tasking (we're required to do a minimum of 1 hr per week of CS & are allowed to track up to 4 hrs per week) and was given the task to make the datepicker widget 508 compliant.
Couple of questions:
1) Should I enter a ticket and if so should I split up the "508 compliance" issue into a ticket for each requirement (i.e. keyboard navigation, verifying alt-tags... etc.). I haven't been able to find any tickets for either keyboard navigation (need to be able to fully navigate the date picker w/ the keyboard) or 508 compliance in general (If anyone knows of any, please let me know!).
2) Should I work on the refactored datepicker for 1.9 (datepicker refactor) or fork current datepicker and work on that?
3) If anyone has done similar things with other jQuery widgets or have a direction that I should start looking, please let me know.
Thanks!
~Josh
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