Web Experience Toolkit (WET)
Overview
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:
- 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¶
Relevant links¶
| Sub Projects  |
| Display enhancement features  |
| Form interface features  |
| Information sharing features  |
| Interface enhancement features  |
| Core framework  |
| Legacy browsers support project  |
| Navigation enhancement features  |
| Personalisation features  |
| Utility features  |
| Framework variants  |
| WET themes  |
| Web management features  |
Tracking
- Defect - Défaut: 103 open / 757
- Suggestion: 111 open / 396
- Management - Gestion: 6 open / 23
- Request - Demande: 176 open / 887
- Consignment - Relégation: 0 open / 0
- Offer - Offrir: 0 open / 0
Members
Contributor/Contributeur: Laura Wesley, Laura Wesley
Manager/Gestionnaire: Laurent Goderre, Mario Bonito, Paul Jackson
Portfolio/Portefeuille: Laurent Goderre, Mary Beth Baker, Mary Beth Baker, Mary Beth Baker, Paul Jackson, Pirthipal Singh
Latest news
Version 2.3 (v2.3) released
61 features included in v2.3 (9 new and 37 updated)
Lancement de la version 2.3 (v2.3)
61 composants sont inclus dans v2.3 (9 nouveaux et 37 mis à jour)
Thème de la facilité d'emploi des sites Web
Version 2.2 (v2.2) released
53 features included in v2.2 (16 new and 37 updated)