Color picker

[David Bolter]

The dojo palette has pretty decent a11y support now including kb nav.
http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/dojotoolkit/dijit/tests/test_ColorPalette.html

cheers,
David

Colin Clark wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Great question. My experience looking at several colour pickers was that 
> they were inaccessible in a typical way for a lot of DHTML interfaces. 
> They didn't work at all with the keyboard, instead relying entirely on 
> mouse-based interactions.
>
> Colin
>
> Mark Norton wrote:
>   
>> Colin Clark wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I had been looking for a good JavaScript colour picker back when we 
>>> were working on PreferAble, and while there were some nice ones, they 
>>> were grossly inaccessible.
>>>  
>>>
>>>       
>> How were they inaccessible, Colin?  To some degree, a color picker is 
>> going to be tough for the vision impaired, though color-names and 
>> color-values could help, perhaps as ALT or tool tips text.  Why would a 
>> color picker be any less accessible, mechanically at least, than a date 
>> picker that shows a month?
>>
>> - Mark Norton
>>
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