Web Experience Toolkit (WET)

Web Experience Toolkit (WET) includes ready-made tools and solutions for building and maintaining innovative Web sites that are accessible, usable, and interoperable. These tools and solutions are open source software and free for use by departments and external Web communities.

The toolkit complies with the new Standards on Web Accessibility and Web Usability; the toolkit will also ease compliance with the upcoming Standard Web Interoperability. WET is highly recommended for use on Government of Canada Websites.

Benefits¶

• Provides ready-made Web tools and solutions for building and maintaining innovative Web sites.
• Respects accessibility (WCAG 2.0 AA and WAI-ARIA), usability, and interoperability.
• Reduces costs by consolidating Web tools and solutions.
• Open source software that is free to use by departments and external Web communities.
• Uses advanced technologies to push the envelope for Web site functionality:
  • HTML5, CSS3, jQuery (JavaScript framework);
  • Ever-growing list of open source plugins and widgets.
• Supports a wide range of layouts and designs for internal and external Web sites (including applications).

Key resources¶

• Proposed feature changes from v2.x to v3.x
• Sub-project testing schedule (v3.0)
• Web Experience Toolkit (WET) v2.3 release notes
• Download WET features (v2.x - Current) (Terms and Conditions of Use)
• Working examples (v2.x - Current)
• WET documentation (v2.x - Current)
• Download WET features (v3.x) (Terms and Conditions of Use)
• Working examples (v3.x)
• WET documentation (v3.x)
• WET Fact Sheet

How you can help out with WET¶

1. How to test WET and report any issues
2. Contribute to a WET sub-project
3. Lead a WET sub-project

Relevant links¶

• How to implement the WET core framework
• WET implementations
• Reviewer's Guide
• WET timeline
• WET and sub-project review process
• Roles and responsibilities
• Web Standards for the Government of Canada
• @GCWebStandards on Twitter (#WxT is the English hashtag for WET)
• Discussion forums