GSoC Accessibility Project

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Posted by YaxBalamAhaw on May 5, 2010 at 2:57am

Hey y'all. My Google Summer of Code proposal (see Drupal for All) has been accepted, so I will be working on improving the accessibility of Drupal 7 in a few areas this summer. Mainly I plan on making accessible sub-themes of the core themes, accessible content creation (through a wysywig editor), and making Views more accessible (or at least the output). I probably will not start the actual coding until the program officially begins (May 28). This will give me some time to analyze the problems and possible solutions; which is good because I've got a lot to learn.

Anyways, I'm excited about this learning opportunity. And I'm looking forward to getting to know this community, and hopefully making the web a little more usable for everybody.

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Congratulations!

Posted by bowersox on May 5, 2010 at 3:12am
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Great news! We all look forward to working with you on this!

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Great News!

Posted by mgifford on May 5, 2010 at 12:45pm
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If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them here, on IRC, the issue queue.. So many places..

  • hopefully the accessibility enhancements for the themes can be worked back into core.
  • I installed the CKeditor tool recently via the WYSIWYG module and it's had some good reviews for accessibility. Has a good accessibility statement too.
  • views... Yes, lots to do there. Hopefully adding some structure to the editor or looking at integrating/updating tools like Semantic Views or Simple Views.

Looking forward to your contributions!

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