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Welcome to the Wiki for the Web Experience Toolkit (WET).

Table of Contents What is the Web Experience Toolkit? Key resources Documentation for Implementers Getting Started Reference Events Upcoming Events Past Events Ongoing projects Past projects Web Management and Monitoring Communication Materials Version History v3.1 v3.0

What is the Web Experience Toolkit?

• Collaborative open source project led by the Government of Canada
• Award winning code library for building innovative websites that are:
  • Accessible, usable and interoperable
  • Mobile friendly
  • Multilingual
• Flexible and themeable templates and reusable components
• Open source software
  • Free to use for commercial and non-commercial purposes (MIT license - Terms and conditions)
  • Developed openly by the community on GitHub

Key resources

• Benefits
• Working examples
• Working examples - v4.0
• Documentation
• Downloads
• Main project
• Terms and conditions
• Contributor guidelines
• Versioning
• Version history
• Roadmap

Documentation for Implementers

WET operates on the principle of progressive enhancement, and implements well established techniques increasing the accessibility and usability of web content. If you are new to WET, please begin with our Getting Started section, which contains all the information anyone new requires to access, implement or contribute to the toolkit. Otherwise, see the Reference section.

If you wish to create or edit the existing documentation please follow the guidelines.

Getting Started

• Getting Started with WET
  • Using Github for WET
  • Implementing WET
  • Developing for WET

Reference

• Core Framework
• Variants
• Themes and Style
• Plugins
• Polyfills
• External Projects used in WET

Events

Events related to WET are listed here with links to more information where available.

Upcoming Events

There are no upcoming events.

Past Events

• WET Codefest 2.0 (August 8-9, 2013)
• Pre-Codefest Events
• Exploring Canada's Web Experience Toolkit - webinar with Paul Jackson, Web Standards Office: http://www.howto.gov/training/classes/canada-web-experience-toolkit/ (April 17, 2013) - FREE
• Toronto Accessibility & Inclusive Design User Group: About the Web Experience Toolkit (WET): (April 16, 2013; Video (in English Only))
• La Boîte à outils de l’expérience Web : L’approche du Gouvernement du Canada en matière d’accessibilité et de facilité d’emploi et d’interopérabilité des sites Web (23 novembre, 2012; PDF slides (in French only))
• WET Community Group Strategy & Governance Meeting (November 14, 2012)
• GTEC panel discussion (Webcast) (November 7, 2:00 - 3:00) Putting Canadians First Through Open Collaborative Web Development https://meet53548790.adobeconnect.com/gteccollaborative1400
• WET Community Group (October 18, 2012) - a session to start and organize a WET community
• WET Discovery Day (August 17, 2012) - a session for developers who are new to WET
• COE Usability Discovery Day (July 19, 2012) - a session on User-Centred Design and other Usability concepts
• WxT CodeFest (July 10, 2012) - a festival to code, contribute and learn about WET

Ongoing projects

• Brainstorm new WxT components Add an idea or a request.
• Sub project testing schedule (v3.1) These components need to be tested. Any takers?
• Job Descriptions What are the skills and roles needed to produce usable, accessible websites? Add a sample public sector job description or help write one.
• Testing Repository of on-going and planned testing efforts.
• HTML data for basic Web page template
  • Draft HTML pilots guide
• Component reviews

Past projects

• Sub project testing schedule (v3.0)

Web Management and Monitoring

• WET projects for Web management

Communication Materials

• Promotional material
• Articles, blogs, videos, implementations of WET

Version History

v3.1

• v3.1 changelog
• v3.1.6 release notes
• v3.1.5 release notes
• v3.1.4 release notes
• v3.1.3 release notes
• v3.1.2 release notes
• v3.1.1 release notes
• v3.1.0 release notes
• v3.1.0 Release Candidate 1 release notes
• v3.1.0 Beta 2 release notes
• v3.1.0 Beta 1 release notes
• v3.1.0 Alpha 1 release notes

v3.0

• v3.0 changelog
• v3.0.11 release notes
• v3.0.10 release notes
• v3.0.9 release notes
• v3.0.8 release notes
• v3.0.7 release notes
• v3.0.6 release notes
• v3.0.5 release notes
• v3.0.4 release notes
• v3.0.3 release notes
• v3.0.2 release notes
• v3.0.1 release notes
• v3.0 release notes
• Changes to class and id names from v2.3 to v3.0
• Proposed changes from v2.x to v3.x