Web Experience Toolkit (WET)

What is the Web Experience Toolkit?

Key resources

Benefits

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 (jQuery Mobile)
  • Optimized for performance
  • Building support for device-based mobile applications

Multilingual

  • Currently supports 33 languages (including right-to-left languages)
    • English
    • French
    • Afrikaans
    • Albanian
    • Arabic
    • Armenian
    • Bulgarian
    • Chinese
    • Chinese (Simplified)
    • Czech
    • Dutch
    • Estonian
    • German
    • Greek
    • Hindi
    • Hungarian
    • Icelandic
    • Indonesian
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Latvian
    • Lithuanian
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Portuguese (Brazilian)
    • Russian
    • Slovak
    • Spanish
    • Thai
    • Turkish
    • Ukranian
    • Vietnamese

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
    • Pull requests
    • Design patterns
    • Issues and suggestions
    • Documentation
    • Testing
  • Multi-level review process for contributions to ensure code integrity (combination of automated and manual reviews)

Version history

v3.1

v3.0