Overview
Apex 4X is a comprehensive ARIA development suite, including a core collection of powerful ARIA development utilities and functions, plus a full index of scalable ARIA design pattern templates. It also includes two APIs that are specifically designed to enhance and facilitate advanced ARIA development.
ARIA stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications, and is a technical specification published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). The purpose, to map simulated web controls to equivalent control types on the platform Accessibility API, and to provide various mechanisms to enhance the accessibility of web technologies for people with disabilities.
Apex 4X provides a comprehensive suite of ARIA related processes to make developing accessible technologies easier and more reliable and does not expose the accessibility layer where it can be casually changed by those who do not understand it. This makes it possible for developers who have no prior background in accessible development, to create and implement accessible web technologies for people with disabilities regardless.
The $A API provides all core functionality, including dynamic modularization for swappable components, advanced ARIA development features and processes, data management, DOM related methods and processes, dynamic import methods, visual effect methods for content display and animation, and chaining.
The DC (Dynamic Component) API provides direct access to individually configurable components and widgets. Each DC instance includes the ability to control dynamic behaviors, manage content and events, utilize lifecycle methods, pass custom props between other DC instances and external resources, control rendering processes, plus manage visual effects and animation.
To learn more, view the Beginner Tutorial.
Accessible Widget Templates
All of the following ARIA widget templates are available for immediate use. None of them require any prior knowledge of ARIA to implement.
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Apex 4X including all template design patterns is distributed under the terms of the Open Source Initiative OSI - MIT License, and may be freely used for any purpose within any web technology.