DWR version 2.0 milestone 3 is released.

The DWR 2 story so far ...

Milestone 1 delivered Reverse Ajax, milestone 2 included Annotations and a Java API for writing Javascript.

Milestone 3 includes Accessibility support, Spring namespace support, deeper Webwork integration, and more demos.

Accessibility

This is an experimental new feature. The problem is that to a fully sighted person a page is random access. To someone using a screen reader, a page is sequential access, so if we change some text behind the current read point, the user with a screen reader will not notice.

DWR Util now publishes change events whenever it changes a section of a page, and there is a pluggable notification system to raise alerts of the change.

Currently there are 2 'HighlightHandler's.

dwr.util.focusHighlightHandler should work with Firefox 1.5 and Windows Eyes 5.5. It simply calls element.focus(), which should have the desired effect.
dwr.util.yellowFadeHighlightHandler is useful for partially sighted people or when you just want to be fancy. It's function should be obvious from the name.

So to try it out call:

dwr.util.setHighlightHandler(dwr.util.yellowFadeHighlightHandler);

And then use dwr.util.setValue(), dwr.util.setValues(), dwr.util.addRows() or dwr.util.addOptions().

You can also specify a highlight handler at the point of invocation:

dwr.util.setValue("id", "value", {
  highlightHandler:dwr.util.yellowFadeHighlightHandler
});

If you wish to invoke the highter manually, you can do that with the DWRUtil.highlight function as follows:

dwr.util.highlight("id");

DWRUtil.highlight("id", {
  highlightHandler:DWRUtil.yellowFadeHighlightHandler
});