accessibility

At last night's Austin Drupal meetup, I promised to post the links to the tools I demonstrated for testing color schemes for sufficient contrast. I plan to share more about these in the Accessibility portion of Drupal documentation, but for now, here are the places to find the tools:

Anybody going?

Paper submissions - deadline today...

Are any Drupal community members also members of The Alliance for Technology Access?

I'd like to contact people regarding disability issues,
web access, and activism for the disabled.

Thanks for your interest.

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The Alliance for Technology Access
http://ataccess.org/

Web Access
http://ataccess.org/rresources/webaccess.html

In random order, rough, wrote as making changes. Most interesting is the aria-required and adding the h2's to status messages, etc.

If using beauty tips, beware of using non-100% opacity due to those with visibility issues.

Add h2's around messages and role alert.

What if your site is perfectly accessible but no one knows about it?

This question came up while working on Accessibility improvements for vertical tabs , together with some first thoughts on this issue.

You all might remember an earlier post I made about the QUAIL accessibility library and its potential for checking content for accessibility. Well, now you can download the fruits of that labor!

There's a readme file in there that outlines how to download and setup the module. It comes packaged with the quail lib for now, but if it goes to drupal.org I'll remove it and require folks to download it from it's own site on code.google.com.

Visualize is a Views style plug-in for implementing the jQuery Visualize charting tool.

jQuery Visualize provides accessible charts providing textual information to non-visual users.
It uses a technique with JavaScript to scrape data from an HTML table and generate charts using the HTML 5 Canvas element.

Try out a demo: http://lakeandweb.com/visualize/

We need to come up with a good name for a CSS class, but I don't want this discussion to clutter up the issue queue. (Let's reserve the queue for presenting and discussing patches that fix functional or programmatic problems.) So I'm posting this item to see if we can develop an idea that is better than the ones we've already come up with.

In case we're interested in taking this into IRC, I registered #drupal-accessibility on freenode to chat around coding and accessibility issues and extensions in Drupal.

I'm going to set up logging on it this weekend.

Mike Gifford (mgifford) and Everett Zufelt are addressing a major accessibility issue for the administration interface of Drupal 7. If they had help from someone with JQuery skills, they could make significant progress. If you think you can help, check out http://drupal.org/node/467296.