What is this ?

• This plugin aims to be a collection of snippets that improve accessibility for websites.
• It also includes a set of "recommendations" coded as tests to improve accessibilty (even beyond javascript).
• These recommendations can be tested against a page, and get a summary of the results.

How to use it ?

• First add a call to jquery.js (duh!).
• Add jquery.accessible.js. This contains the engine for rules/fixes and a set of predefined ones.
• Right after this, you are ready to run the fixes by calling jQuery.accessible(). You can pass in a hash to specify, with the id and true or false, which ones to run.
  IMPORTANT: don't call this function inside document.ready, call it right away instead.

If you want to run the tests in your page:

• Add jquery.accessible.validator.js after jquery.accessible.js.
• Call jQuery.accessible.runTests(). (right away too)
• You can optionally indicate where to output the results, with a selector as first argument.

What else ?

• This plugin is just giving its first steps, and it's mostly a draft/demonstration for now.
• The author's intention is to get developers to collaborate, in order to consolidate a large number of improvements to websites' accessibility.
• Allowing any developer to make his/her site, much more accessible, with little effort.

If you have something to say or contribute, please:

• Add a feature request.
• Or email me to aflesler(at)gmail(dot)com.

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