Accessibility
All you WCAG nuts this is the place for you: how to make Drupal more accessible. Hints, tips, discussion and patch proposals.
New window notifier
Do you know of a module that displays an image for links that open new windows? We're using External Links, but it uses a background image for this via CSS. To my knowledge, screen readers don't see background images. Also, the background image doesn't allow for alternate text.
According to the accessibility gurus at WebAIM, "users ought to be alerted when the link does not open in the current window or frame. The accessibility issue is that some users can get confused with the new windows." http://webaim.org/techniques/hypertext/hypertext_links#new_window
where to begin
hello there
i'm interested to build a website for the blind pilots using microsoft fs simulator.
and i've heard that drupal is verry accessible, and i might want to try it.
i need help about where to start, which drupal i get (i cannot find drupal 8 nowhere) and modules or themes that can help me.
i have my hosting account ready.
so any helps would be appreciated!
thanks
-hadi
Monthly Accessibility Skype: Call for Topics: Feb. 14, 5pm UTC/11am CST
Call for Topics:
Please reply with suggested topics for our February Drupal Accessibility Skype Meeting.
Tuesday, February 14, 2011
5pm UTC-GMT / 11am CST
on Skype (contact m.gifford or brandonbowersox on Skype to be added to the group if this is your first time joining)
Anyone interested in working on Accessibility using Drupal is invited.
Please respond with suggested topics
Audio captcha ALMOST usable by those who need it
I am sighted and until recently I would never use Mollom or captcha since I personally could not understand the audio. Recently I decided to implement captcha on our Drupal registration form and asked our staff to test and received the feedback below. I personally think that an instruction to just enter the first letter of each word could be added - (I was confused).
AdaptiveTheme
Dear members,
I am screen reader user from Brazil.
I've decided to use AdaptiveTheme to Drupal, because it is the only one that follows all standard accessibility found at WCAG However, I've get
a really serious difficulty in my point of view. There are two lateral bars that are called near the content, which makes that the screen
readers read the content only after the general content,, even the first
lateral bar is posicioned in the left, it means, before the general content. How can I solve this problem?
Best regards,
Leondeniz.
Accessibility of "manage fields" page in Drupal 7
In Administration> Structure > Content types > Basic page > manage fields, There is a table containing the fields and a "drag to re-order" link for each column.
I'm a screen reader user, so I can't use this drag function. Is there any way to use this "drag to re-order" function via the keyboard? Or do we really need to use the mouse?
Thanks.
Julius
Accessibility Sprint
Who’s interested in participating in an accessibility sprint?
A location, date, and time hasn’t been set yet, but one suggestion is having it during DrupalCon Denver. In order to maximize involvement, we’ll also have a Skype session and an IRC chat room (#drupal-accessibility) available for people unable to make it in person.
Design Initiative IRC Meetups
Please join us for our 1st bi-weekly meeting to discuss issues and progress related to the Drupal 8 Design initiative. The meeting will be held in #drupal-design in IRC.
PST: 11:00 AM
EST: 2:00 PM
UK: 7:00 PM
CET: 8:00 PM
Monthly Accessibility Skype: Call for Topics: Dec. 13, 5pm UTC/11am CST
Call for Topics:
Please reply with suggested topics for our November Drupal Accessibility Skype Meeting.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
5pm UTC-GMT / 11am CST
on Skype (contact m.gifford or brandonbowersox on Skype to be added to the group if this is your first time joining)
Anyone interested in working on Accessibility using Drupal is invited.
Please respond with suggested topics
jQuery - Accordion, Views Slideshow, Calendar
Many thanks to people for their work on accessibility!
Could someone point to instructions about how to implement the more accessible version of Accordion? Does it work with Drupal jQuery, or does it replace that as well as the Accordion script itself? Or do we just add this as a jQuery script in our jQuery Libraries folder?
And, though it's perhaps off topic, is what's true for Accordion also true for Views Slideshow script? Can it be implemented in a way that is more accessible for aural readers? And Calendar Popup?
Drupal 8 Mobile UX Roadmap
As we found out in London, Drupal's mobile admin interface faces some big obstacles to overcome. If we want to to be able to tackle some of these problems in the next release cycle we need focus, the idea being we don't move on to the next item in till we have the previous one licked. I've whipped up proposal for our road map. This is by no means complete, there is plenty of detail to fill in.
I'm hoping we can work on it together.
Words to live by
Don't let the current interface hold us back
Monthly Accessibility Skype Call: Nov. 8, 5pm GMT/11am CST
Call for Topics:
Please reply with suggested topics for our November Drupal Accessibility Skype Meeting.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
5pm GMT/11am CST
on Skype (contact m.gifford or brandonbowersox on Skype to be added to the group if this is your first time joining)
Anyone interested in working on Accessibility using Drupal is invited. Because of daylight savings time ending this Sunday, November 6 in the United States, note that this meeting will be at 5pm GMT.
Please respond with suggested topics
More accessible tables output by block-admin-display-form.tpl.php
Tables should have summaries and captions and table headers and table cells should be marked (as you teach me) with correspondent "headers" and "id" values.
I added some simple Php functions to block-admin-display-form.tpl.php and the output seems to be complete.
Temporary contract - D6 Theme Accessibility Redesign | Dyslexia Action
Call for Proposals: Drupal 6 Theme Accessibility Redesign
We are currently conducting an accessibility review of our Drupal 6.0/CiviCRM install (http://training.dyslexiaaction.org.uk). We are seeking a Drupal accessibility and theming specialist to implement the recommendations from the review.
IT Help Desk Technician | Pixo
Pixo is in need of an IT Help Desk Technician. Pixo is a great environment if you are self-motivated and enjoy a highly collaborative environment. You will be part of a close-knit, diverse group of creatives helping to provide the highest level of technology and design services in the region, in the most beautiful studio in downtown Urbana.
An accessible template for Drupal
Good evening,
I started developing an accessible template for Drupal which I called "Visioni".
The work in progress is at the address
the compressed file of the template at the address
http://4elementi.info/drupal/themes/visioni.zip
I an not new to Web Accessibility: I released an accessible template for Wordpress, one for Joomla 1.5 and one for PhpBB.
I would be enormously glad to keep on developing it with this community.
Francesco
Document Relationship
I propose to increase the accessibility (as well as SEO) of the sites using Drupal by supporting the HTML link Element which defines the document relationship. As this element is placed within the HTML head, it isn't directly seen by the user, however the browsers as well as assistive technologies may use this information in order to provide better navigation e.g. by offering a dedicated navigation bar.
Next Drupal Meet Up
We have scheduled the next Drupal Meet-Up for Thursday, October 27th at 5:30pm here at Pixo again (formerly OJC Technologies). The topic is Workflows in Drupal 7, with a demo by Matt Townsend. We also invite any attendee that would like to present a 5 min topic or project could reply to us to add it to the agenda. There will be light refreshments. If you missed the first event, here's a recap on what we discussed: http://pixotech.com/blog/drupal-meet-recap
Our address:
121 W. Goose Alley
Urbana, IL 61801
Documenting successful implementations of ATAG 2.0 in Drupal
How many aspects of Drupal conform with the W3C's Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG 2.0)?
If we can write each of those aspects up, we can help the Authoring Tool Accessibility Working Group (AUWG) of the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative improve two important documents.
And while we're doing that, we can make it easier for Drupal themers and developers to understand what they can do—or, in some cases, must do—to ensure that Drupal remains accessible and continues to help people who use it create websites that are themselves accessible.
This post is not yet complete. Check back in a few hours. Or perhaps even tomorrow.
accessible drop-down menus in d7
Hi all,
I'm very much a newbie to drupal 7, so forgive what may be a rather inane question. I should also point out at the start of this post that I'm a blind drupal user and most of my work is carried out on the mac.
Ok I'll be as brief as possible. I had an old, perfectly functional and adequate d6 site. The structure was based around a very very simple menu which had 4 top-level menu items. When I activated one of them (say the link called "teaching") all of the courses I taught expanded out as submenu items.
