Any­one who knows me will tell you it’s no great secret that I’m not a big fan of JavaScript. To me, it seems really flaky and prone to prob­lems… plus, it’s so often used for evil instead of good. And, I’m not very good at writ­ing it!

Well, the Web Con­tent Acces­si­bil­ity Guide­lines Work­ing Group (WCAG WG) is work­ing on a script­ing “best prac­tises” project for cre­at­ing acces­si­ble JavaScript. They plan to release freely avail­able mod­ules for com­mon script­ing require­ments, already browser, plat­form and acces­si­bil­ity tested.

I’d bet­ter watch out or I might start lik­ing JavaScript. Espe­cially if some­one else writes and tests it for me! Gmail has copped a bit of flack (sorry, I’m talk­ing about it again) for being funky but almost com­pletely inac­ces­si­ble. It’s really, really usable though. It would be amaz­ing if some of the big brains got together and worked out how to make JavaScript wid­gets that were both.

I’ll be watch­ing this one closely.