Accessibility

I posted this awhile back on the Nice Menus issue queue with no response. Wondering if perhaps I am doing something wrong on the accessibility testing front (using WAVE to check site)....or if someone else has experienced this issue as well:

Next Conference Call

Monday August 24
11:00am Eastern Time (U.S.) (-05:00 UTC)

If you want to participate please e-mail
everett@openconcept.ca

Agenda

Please feel free to add agenda items.

• Discuss solutions to outstanding problems listed in Everett's blog article Update to the State of Drupal 7 Accessibility.

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On Monday, August 10, we had the second of three planned Drupal 7 accessibility taskforce conference calls. The goal of this call was to discuss open accessibility issues, and to brainstorm and build consensus on appropriate solutions.

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The other day I posted to the accessibility group on g.d.o and was asked to solve a CAPTCHA. As a screen-reader user, posting in an accessibility forum, I was quite surprised.

Now, I was made a little less frustrated when I noticed that the CAPTCHA included an audio alternative. However, the audio is sufficiently unclear that it was a challenge for me to solve on the first attempt, and I cannot imagine the challenge it would be for someone who is hearing impaired.

In short, audio / visual CAPTCHAs, even when used together, are a poor accessibility practice.

I have been loosely involved in web development for 12 years. Over the course of this time I lost my sight due to a degenerative eye disease. When I started using a screen-reader I realized that navigating the web can be very difficult for persons with disabilities, and was somewhat disturbed with all of the coding mistakes that I had made over the years that may have contributed to this problem.

Hi,

I'm a multimedia developer (I can do a bit of everything but always have to learn more to complete a task), I have experience in developing HTML, CSS, Javascript, Actionscript 2 moving to 3 now and a very brief understanding of PHP.

I've recently started learning how to implement Drupal as I have undertaken the development of a website for a public body that requires a CMS and they legally need the site to comply to WCAG Double A standards for site users but not contributors or adminstrators.

Posted up a suggestion on the Theme & Design track for DCParis about including some web accessibility material.

I think a lot of what we're working on/discussing here could be gelled into a solid panel discussion or presentation directly applicable to Drupal themers and the T&D track looks really interesting already.

-Kate

I recently had someone ask me about Drupal's compliance with a few standards and thought this group would be a great place to start some discussion.

• Section 508 compliance
• WAI (W3C Web Accessibility Initiative) compliance

I haven't done any formal research on the topic, but my impression is that Drupal core is compliant with all of these standards. I believe that as we head off into contributed modules/themes they quickly deviate from these standards.