WET

Key Features

Accessibility: • Conforms to WCAG 2.0 level AA • Leverages WAI-ARIA to further enhance accessibility • Assistive technology testing (Access Working Group) Usability: • Iterative approach to design • Design patterns and usability testing (User Experience Working Group) Interoperability: • HTML5-first approach (leveraging native HTML5 support and filling support gaps with “polyfills”) • Supporting a wide variety of browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera) • Building support for HTML data (RDFa 1.1 Lite, Schema.org) Mobile friendly responsive design: • Adapts to different screen sizes and device capabilities • Touchscreen support • Optimized for performance • Building support for device-based mobile applications Multilingual: • Currently supports 33 languages (including right-to-left languages) Themeable and reusable: • Flexible framework that supports custom themes • Includes support for 5 different themes including a “Base” theme to use as a template • Reusable templates, plugins and widgets • Adapted to various CMS and programming frameworks (Drupal, WordPress, SharePoint (in development), DotNetNuke (in development), PHP, SSI and Java/Maven) Reduces costs by openly sharing and collaborating: • Drives down research and development costs • Avoids duplication of effort • Produces better quality results Collaborative approach: • Project managed openly on GitHub, including discussion through the issues tracker • Encouraging a free flow of ideas, dialogue and innovation including sharing of challenges and ideas • External contributions welcome • Multi-level review process for contributions to ensure code integrity (combination of automated and manual reviews)