Accessibility

Views Filters with Exposed Select Lists

jdwalling — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:20:58 +0000

Views Filters with Exposed Select Lists

Problem: Long lists in exposed filters require control key + multi-selects which are subject to keyboard errors.

Solution: Convert select lists to scrolled check box items for specific filters (not globally)

Some Possible Approaches:
irc:drupal-support 6/30/2008
[18:30] http://drupal.org/project/views_checkboxes
[18:31] I've tried this using phptemplate_form_alter in my template.php
[18:31] http://drupal.org/node/138374#comment-545078
[18:31] http://drupal.org/node/138374 => Exposed views filter widgets as checkboxes and radio buttons => Form Tweaker, Code, normal, patch (code needs review), 3 IRC mentions
[18:32] I think this does it globally too, but that could be modified
[18:32] <DT> ipwa you can't use hook_form_alter in template.php you'd need to use a module
[18:32] <DT> template.php is for theming
[18:34] <_DT> ipwa I've used views filter block and done a little theming of it yes
[18:35] <DT> ipwa: this one can be useful: http://drupal.org/project/views_filterblock

Other approaches?

Seattle

Drupal Consultant / Evangelist / Guru - no coding | Proteon Development

lex.van.sonderen — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:22:57 +0000

Proteon develops and supports vital sites for big customers. We work with multiple open source platforms. We focus on Drupal and Plone. Development is executed by our teams in Russia, Argentina and South Africa. The people who talk with the customers are based in the Netherlands.

We are looking for that individual who knows very well what you can and cannot do with Drupal. Someone who can talk and listen to customers and users. Someone who loves to work with motivated, keen developers. Preferably with some technical knowledge, but primarily an expert in the (advanced) use of Drupal.

Please find the complete job description (in Dutch) below:

Gezocht: Technisch Consultant
Informatie over de vacature

De technisch consultant is verantwoordelijk voor het inhoudelijk managen van ontwikkelprojecten die we voor onze klanten uitvoeren. Dit gebeurt in nauwe samenwerking met de klant en met de ontwikkelteams. Voor deze functie zijn we op zoek naar iemand met een scherp technisch inzicht in het gebruik van websites, goede contactuele eigenschappen en een accuratesse die neigt naar perfectionisme. Proteon maakt gebruik van Open Source technologie en onze ontwikkelteams bevinden zich in het buitenland, dat moet je een positieve uitdaging vinden.

Verantwoordelijkheden
* Met accountmanager oplossingsrichting voor klant bedenken
* Met klant functionaliteit en design en testcriteria afstemmen
* Klant adviseren in oplossingsrichting
* Afspraken en specificaties vastleggen
* Ontwikkelaars informeren over requirements
* Ontwikkelaars sturen binnen het project
* Acceptatie en testcriteria opstellen
* Klant op de hoogte houden
* Budget en tijd controleren

Vaardigheden
* Je spreekt en schrijft goed Nederlands en Engels
* Je kunt zelfstandig en oplossingsgericht werken
* Je hebt ervaring met ontwikkeling voor internet
* Je hebt veel ervaring met het gebruik van internet en online toepassingen
* Je hebt ervaring met testen

Persoonlijke eigenschappen
* Je bent accuraat
* Je bent een goede communicator
* Je bent er trots op dat de klant successen boekt met jouw oplossing
* Je werkt graag in een team
* Je bent zowel flexibel als gestructureerd.

Wat bieden wij
* Goed salaris
* Flexibele werktijden
* Mogelijkheid tot thuiswerken
* Pensioenregeling
* Leuke collega's
* Mobiel van de zaak
* Laptop van de zaak
* Internetvergoeding thuis
* Opleidingsregeling
* Bonusregeling
* Eindejaarsuitkering

Pre’s
* Beheersing van Spaanse of Russische taal
* Ervaring met iteratieve of agile projectontwikkeling
* Ervaring met CMS systemen, met name Plone en Drupal
* Ervaring met open source
* Achtergrond in informatica, bedrijfskunde, ergonomie of design
* Bereidheid tot dienstreizen (max 1x per jaar)

We vragen uitdrukkelijk ook minder ervaren, maar enthousiaste, kandidaten om te solliciteren. Voor ons is het belangrijker dat je de capaciteiten en de wil hebt om door te groeien in de functie dan dat je nu al aan alle eisen voldoet.

The Netherlands / Nederland

conversations over the internet

simmoe — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:47:24 +0000

Hi everybody

I run an Internet page for blind and otherwise visually impaired users and have some thoughts on making a talk (audio) support/dialogue feature. The most basic implementation could be as simple as a text chat, only using sound instead, of course.

I know this may not be the only relevant place to post this issue, but i was wondering if any of you guys have heard of something to integrate into Drupal? It would really be a giant step for challenged computer users if audio support and dialogue was more common on websites, but I can't seem to find any general, open source, free and minimal projects at all.

Best,
Simon

Accessibility

Free Drupal Themes Wanted!

peach@drupal.org — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:57:38 +0000

Hi!
I'm peach, or Jurriaan, from All Drupal Themes and I'm having some trouble finding good themes to port and release to the community. I've already ported several themes but it turns out there were some problems:
-Apparently people were more interested in 3-column themes
-Some of the themes were not deemed useful at all
-Most good looking themes I find are Creative Commons licensed, which makes sense from the designers point of view, but unfortunately they are not allowed on drupal.org/project/Themes. I was reassured when I signed up for a cvs account that I must not upload CC2.5 licensed themes, only GPL.

I've created this post to communicate with the Drupal community, for whom I make the themes, and hopefully some people have good ideas for themes to be ported to drupal! If anyone has a GPL theme in mind please post it in the comments sections.

If you know of a gorgeous CC licensed design, it's also eligible for a free drupal port but I will put it up with my free drupal themes department but it won't show up on drupal.org/project/Themes.

Looking forward to your input!
JR

Theme development

any ideas on GHOP task (or tasks) focussed on accessibility?

Matt V. — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:26:36 +0000

I've started writing a task focused on accessibility for the Google Highly Open Participation Contest. Then I remembered about this group. I'm no accessibility expert, so I thought I'd post a link to the draft of the task, in case anyone would like to provide feedback.

Keeping in mind the guidelines for writing Drupal GHOP tasks, I'd love to hear any recommendations you might have, especially any specifics I could include to better detail and focus how to perform the evaluation. Please post any feedback on that task to the issue queue.

I'm also interested in additional (or alternative) ideas for an accessibility related task that a high school student could accomplish in about a week. If you have ideas for new tasks, feel free to leave them in the comments below.

I'd be glad to shepherd the tasks through the GHOP queue, if I have enough detail to get going. I'm also willing to turn the tasks over, if any of the accessibility experts here are interested in being a contact for the task.

Accessibility

New theme for accessibility

Steve Lockwood — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 10:10:17 +0000

Hi All,

I have recently uploaded a new Drupal theme, called Flexible. One of the goals was to build accessibility features into the system. These include:
- "hidden" links for speech readers at the start of the page so users can "skip to content" or "skip to navigation" etc.
- built-in alternative style sheets for high contrast, large fonts etc
- ability to "linearise" the content
- support for standard accessibility keys
- the ability for users to store the above preferences so they are loaded automatically next time

(It would be nice if core Drupal supported some of these features directly, but that's another topic.)

I would appreciate any feedback you would like to give about my approach and would be happy to consider further developments. You can download the theme from Flexible or you can see it working at http://equilibrium-business.com.

Steve.

Accessibility

Dreamweaver Extension Developer Needed | Peter Apokotos

Peter Apokotos — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:40:25 +0000

I am looking for an Adobe Dreamweaver Developer to create an extension that will allow the creation of Drupal themes from novice to advanced designs for any Dreamweaver user on the Macintosh or Windows operating systems. This extension must export drupal themes that are XHTML 1.0 Strict, CSS 2.0, and Section 508 compliant. Please contact me if you think you are the person for the job. And your bid on this project. The main requirement is that this Extension must be always up to date with Drupal's theming methods.

Themer Pack Working Group

Are form elements description text in the wrong place?

jbjaaz — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:17:34 +0000

I've been working with some forms and something occurred to me. The "description" text always appears after the the form element throughout drupals UI.

Password
[input box]
Password must be between 8 and 10 characters and only include letters and numbers.

I don't have a lot of experience with screen readers, but the visitor would have the "help" text read to them after they've entered a password correct? Wouldn't this be a nuisance of sorts because they are getting the hint after the fact?

Is this a valid concern? I don't want to investigate a fix if this really isn't a problem.

Accessibility

an experimental platform

Bèrto ëd Sèra@drupal.org — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:37:47 +0000

You might be interested in an experimental platform based on Drupal 5.1 that we are making for small linguistic entities. Basically it delivers the capability of speaking, along with reading, by introducing an added MP3 vocal file to all nodes and comments.

The english version is at http://eng.i-iter.org a first running example in the piemontese language is at http://pms.i-iter.org

We look for volunteer developers and translators to localize the platform into other languages, so feel free to add requests to join the alpha stage. Bear in mind that alpha really means alpha...

Social Networking Sites

Some tech spexx

Bèrto ëd Sèra@drupal.org — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:04:46 +0000

Okay, let's try and say it as a geek ;) The main idea would be to have:
- "everything is a cluster of nodes", meaning that we have but ANY traditional drupal content type can embed a streaming MP3 with the spoken text for the node, and/or a video.
- no fixed starting point (a node can be born as text and later add up video/picture/audio or as any of the other formats)
- a "multimedia cluster" should start to stream its audio content (if present) as soon as it's navigated to.
- a "cluster" should have audio links streaming audio help texts
- a "cluster" should be able to have split storage points (ex. Amazon S3 for everything but text, text on the the drupal machine)
- there SHOULD be a way to launch a sound recorder from the browser... not very security oriented, but then again we speak about people who cannot read and write. It should be VERY simple to hear and to answer with other audio content (maybe skype??)

Let's dream for a while... but pls let's also be realistic. We can find a bit of funding, but what we want is something simple, and mostly something that we will be able to maintain ourselves.

Accessibility

Our problem is analphabetism

Bèrto ëd Sèra@drupal.org — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:54:11 +0000

Our problem is analphabetism. That is, people who cannot read/write in their own languages. It may sound a pretty weird audience, but actually it’s tens of millions of people in Europe (almost no minority language is taught in schools). Same technology maybe pretty useful if used to contact reent migrants who probably won’t be much fluent in the local written language, while they already may communicate orally.

Our idea: every node is (at least) text + audio. What we want is the capability to start from any of the two (an audio or a text file) and add the missing part later if and when possible. The Half-Multimedia-Node should work anyway.

The first thing that comes to mind is nodefamily. 1-1 relationships between book pages and audio, than hack the node template to make sure the audio is shown. Too bad I am a decent PHP/SQL programmer but an absolute newbie on Drupal. So I’d like to hear what you guys think about it.

BTW, do you think there’s any easy way to have the audio start to play on its own once a node is open?

Accessibility

Accessible Drupal examples

swimswimswim — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 02:11:58 +0000

I would like to show my local county and library officials examples of government websites that are accessible and use Drupal. I am looking for full or partial ada compliance.

I surfed a City website in Florida that was partially accessible (it had "quick" or "fast" (?) links) but I can't find it again.

Thanks.

Accessibility

Navigation for blind people: "Skip to main"

njivy@drupal.org — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:32:08 +0000

Blind people, when using screen readers or refreshable braille displays, must read web pages sequentially. Typically this means plowing through the page navigation before reaching the main content.

We can provide helpful links, links which are noticeable only to people using non-visual browsers, which allow them to skip over the navigation. It's really easy.

<a class="accessible" href="#bmain" name="btop"><img src="/files/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="Skip to main" /></a>

See a live example of a blog I designed for my friends, the Kyles. The blog is temporarily installed at
http://usenik.com/timgineer/

What are your thoughts? Would this addition to the Garland theme be generally useful?

Nic

Accessibility

Do you design for handhelds?

Laura — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:23:18 +0000

Designers and Information Architects

Theme site set up

narres — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:53:34 +0000

There is set up a small testing site for themes at http://theme.drupaler.net/.

I've tried to install all available themes (4.7.2) and categorized them according to their validatation against "Markup", "CSS" and "WCAG".

All Installed themes can be easily tested from a "Test [$theme]" link. If you are registered you are able to vote for a theme.
If a theme is missing, you should post a story with the [$theme].tar.gz

Usability

CSS Error & Warning free: ! or ?

narres — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 18:22:20 +0000

As I've started "W3C compliant CSS"-issue (http://drupal.org/node/70296) as a wish, it was the first one in the chain of validitaion.

The main critism of warning-free css-validation is the "inherit" argument, which changes nothing visible, but is needed by W3C-validation (warning free).

In my opinion there is a difference between an "explicit defined default" and an "undefined default", cause the "explicit defined" says: Yes, I'm sure, that I want to do this.
As we are experienced webusers, we know that the warning of "undefined color" doesn't make visible sense. But it's one of my most-hated questions customers asks me twice a month: "Why does your site so much validation warnings, although you are working active for accessibility?".

Another important argument is webchick's (http://drupal.org/node/70296#comment-110432), cause it helps debugging CSS problems.

BTW.: I'm currently collecting information to validate Drupal against all "W3C WCAG P1/P2/P3 and Section 508" rules, to eliminate eg.:
- There are 1 form controls that should contain labels. no "label" elements.
- There are no labels for controls.
- There are 6 tables and 6 contain the "summary" attribute but are note data tables (none of them has header cells).
Maybe we should start (if there is a public interest) a own OG "Validation"?

"The CSS2 'inherit' value - available for every property - leads to compact "!important" style rules that govern most or all of a document."
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-CSS-TECHS/

Some interesting articles for ingheritance:
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/css/topics/inherit.htm
http://dorward.me.uk/www/css/inheritance/
http://www-306.ibm.com/able/guidelines/software/swsystemset.html
http://www.access-matters.com/?p=1

Usability

What is the status?

Gunnar Langemark — Mon, 08 May 2006 19:43:30 +0000

I'd be interested in a compiled document "bullet-pointing" status on Drupal accessibilities. What standards does it adhere to - how much? What remains to be done to make Drupal and whatever theme fully accessible according to this and that standard?

Would that be a good starting point?
Does it exist yet?

Accessibility