[WG: I18N & L10N] [Building Sakai] Does Client Side JavaScript Have Access to Internationalization Resource Strings in Sakai 2.x?

[Richwine, Brian L]

Hey, Thanks!

From: jonespm at gmail.com [mailto:jonespm at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Jones
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 4:03 PM
To: Richwine, Brian L
Cc: accessibility at collab.sakaiproject.org WG (accessibility at collab.sakaiproject.org); sakai-dev Developers (sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org); i18n at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Does Client Side JavaScript Have Access to Internationalization Resource Strings in Sakai 2.x?

Nuno had written this library jQuery.i18n.properties [1]. It looked pretty nice and looks like a few tools like profile2 uses it to some extent (http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/PRFL-486) and it's compatible with the bundles that Sakai uses internally.

[1] http://codingwithcoffee.com/?p=272
-Matthew

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Richwine, Brian L <brichwin at indiana.edu<mailto:brichwin at indiana.edu>> wrote:
Hi,

I'm musing over a fix for an accessibility problem where the value attribute of input elements doesn't include any pronounceable words (like the "|<", "<", ">", and ">|" list paging control buttons). By default, screen reading software doesn't read punctuation. If configured to read punctuation, a screen-reader would pronounce "|<" as "Vertical Bar less than" which requires the user to do a good bit of thinking to interpret it as "First".

I'm musing over a jQuery routine that could replace the input elements with a visually equivalent button element that has the required extra text for a screen-reader so low-vision/blind users can always hear "First", "Previous", "Next", and "Last".

It makes we wonder, can a client side JavaScript routine access the i18n resource strings for a tool in Sakai 2.x?

Thanks,
  Brian

Brian Richwine
Adaptive Technology Support Specialist
Adaptive Technology and Accessibility Centers
Indiana University - Bloomington/Indianapolis
http://iuadapts.indiana.edu
(812) 856-4112


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