The server side languages like PHP and Java have nothing to do with the accessibility of web pages, or with ARIA or JS libraries. They just create the content, which can be very accessible, or not accessible at all. Octavian ----- Original Message ----- From: The Elf To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 7:44 PM Subject: Re: Building Accessible rich internet applications which tool most suits besides, I'd think the tried and true ones such as php would be a better choice, with this new wiccac (however its spelled) second, and java third regards, inthane----- Original Message ----- From: E.J. Zufelt To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 7:51 PM Subject: Re: Building Accessible rich internet applications which tool most suits Good evening, 1. Why do you think that ARIA will improve accessibility on your particular site? 2. What relationship do you think hat ARIA has with Javascript / JScript? 3. Check out http://fluidproject.org and http://wiki.codetalks.org for information on JQuery and ARIA and ARIA generally. HTH, Everett On 12-Feb-09, at 10:55 PM, <jaffar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi All. The company i am working for has been commissioned to build a rather large internet/intranet portal application for one of our ministries. My company has recommended that to increase and improve accessibility, the app should be built using the ARIA model. As i have been put in overall charge of accessibility, i have been asked to research this approach. For those of you experienced with the ARIA approach, i have some questions with regards to the tool best suited for the job. Thus far, I have 2 tools in mind, JQuery and AJax as the java script tool. Which of these provides more access? Or should i just resort to using good old pure javascript? or is a mixture of the 3 possible? Or if we decided to program the app using ASP.net with either VB.net or CSharp, will JSCript help in anyway? Thanks for any help. Cheers!