[Building Sakai] Does Client Side JavaScript Have Access to Internationalization Resource Strings in Sakai 2.x?

[Matthew Jones]

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>wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>
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> 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”.
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>
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> 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”.
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> It makes we wonder, can a client side JavaScript routine access the i18n
> resource strings for a tool in Sakai 2.x?
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>
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> Thanks,
>
>   Brian
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>
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> Brian Richwine**
>
> Adaptive Technology Support Specialist**
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> Adaptive Technology and Accessibility Centers**
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> Indiana University - Bloomington/Indianapolis**
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> (812) 856-4112**
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