All you WCAG nuts this is the place for you: how to make Drupal more accessible. Hints, tips, discussion and patch proposals.
Monthly Accessibility Skype: Call for Topics: June 12, 4pm UTC/11am CDT
Call for Topics:
Please reply with suggested topics for our June Drupal Accessibility Skype Meeting. Since the call is 3 days before the Montreal Accessibility Sprint, should we use the call for people to talk about what they want to work on at the Sprint? Reply to suggest any topics.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
4pm UTC / 11am CDT
on Skype (contact m.gifford or brandonbowersox on Skype to be added to the group if this is your first time joining)
Drupal Accessibility Sprint in Montreal June 15-17, 2012
Montreal's local Drupal Association is hosting a 3 day Accessibility code sprint running from 9-5 (and possibly later) on June June 15th, 16th and 17th. Everett Zufelt of and Mike Gifford will lead the sprint which will be held at the offices of Evolving Web, 114-300 rue du Saint-Sacrement, Montreal. Wheel chair access is via rue Le Moyne. Ten dollar Parking can be found nearby on rue University.
Weekend attendees will need to buzz 114 to get access to the building.
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 9, 2012 at Droplabs
Global Accessibility Awareness Day is a community-driven effort whose goal is to focus one day to raise the profile of digital (web, software, mobile app/device, touch screen kiosk, etc.) accessibility and people with different disabilities.
The idea started with a single blog post. On May 9th, people in communities around the world are encouraged to hold a talk/meetup, organize hands-on demos, or plan another activity that brings attention to some aspect of digital accessibility. Follow @GblA11yDay on Twitter and use the #gaad hashtag in your own tweets.
Droplabs is happy to participate in this global event. We will have both Dallas Legan and Larry Hart on-hand to present:
- Dallas Legan is a well-respected member of the Southern California Open Source ecosystem. He has presented on a variety of topics at UUASC, LAMP-SIG, the San Fernando Valley Linux Users Group, the San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group and SCALE.
- Larry Hart is a longtime member of the San Fernando Valley Linux Users Group. He also happens to be a blind web user and will be imparting both his knowledge and frustrations of using a non-accessible web. We hope this will lead to discussions on how we, as web developers, can create a more usable and accessible web.
Monthly Accessibility Skype: Call for Topics: May 8, 4pm UTC/11am CDT
Call for Topics:
Please reply with suggested topics for our May Drupal Accessibility Skype Meeting.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
4pm UTC / 11am CDT
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
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Accessible tables representing many-to-many relationships
I am trying to figure out how to make a particular table accessible. On the y-axis are the names of professors. On the x-axis are the names of research interest areas. The body of the table is used to show which professors work in each area. Each professor can work in multiple areas. So, going along the row for a professor, there is a bullet in the column for each research area that they work in; the other cells are empty.
Read moreAccessibility of Quicktabs
Hi all.
What is the best way to ensure that pages using quick tabs are accessible?
This is an example of a page using quick tabs:
http://www.health.govt.nz/yourhealth-topics/diseases-and-illnesses/heart...
As seen on the page, when you click on one of the links on the quick tab, "symptoms" for example, a new section of information about symptoms would appear. This event will hide the previous section.
I realize that it may be difficult for screen reader users to perceive at once the change that will take place when they click one of the links on the quick tab.
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Phone / SMS / VoIP integration with Commerce, Open Atrium, Drupal Commons and CiviCRM
Hello everyone,
I wonder if anyone would like to partner with me to mentor GSoC projects that provide phone, SMS, and VoIP capabilities to Commerce, Open Atrium, Drupal Commons and/or CiviCRM.
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Accessibility Code Sprint in Montreal - June 2012
Hello everyone,
Montreal's local Drupal Association is planning to run a 3 day Accessibility code sprint in June. Everett Zufelt of and Mike Gifford have both expressed an interest in helping to lead the sprint. We're currently looking at June 15-17 as our dates. A facility has not yet been booked, but Montreal's Notman House has been suggested. It was used successfully for our i18n sprint back in September. We're holding the sprint from June 15th to 17th at the offices of Evolving Web, 114-300 rue du Saint-Sacrement
Monteal.
Tools for Accessibility
As requested at the Wednesday BoF on accessibility, please post any and all tools that you know of that can help with accessibility inside of Drupal and for general design.
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BUEditor accessibility review...
There's an issue on drupal.org to fix some accessibility problems with the BUEditor (the BUeditor adds a toolbar to node/comment editing forms that you can use to put HTML tags in).
I've given the fix a preliminary review, but I'm not an accessibilty expert. So, a review by an accessibility expert would be very helpful, and until it's reviewed, it won't be deployed on Drupal.org (most likely).
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Accessibility BoFs at DrupalCon
For those attending DrupalCon Denver next week, there will be at least two accessibility-related BoF sessions:
- Acccessibility - Wednesday at 5pm
- Designing for Accessibility - Wednesday at 1pm
One-pager summary of Accessibility team's priorities in D8?
Hey, folks! :)
Back in Drupal 7, we used the Community Initiaitves section to outline what folks were working on in D8. There's a page for the accessibility team's priorities at http://drupal.org/node/364629 but it seems that that's almost solely D7-related issues that are already fixed (yay!)
Is there any way you would be able to update this text before DrupalCon? It'd be great to have one URL I can point people to who want to help with your stuff.
Read moreUsing CSS Speech speak-as property?
Is anyone using the http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-speech/? And are there ways Drupal 8 should use this to improve screenreader accessibility?
Here are some examples of this proposed CSS3 Speech syntax:
code {
speak-as: literal-punctuation;
}
.phone-number, .zipcode {
speak-as: digits;
}Are there places in Drupal's admin area or in Drupal sites where we should be using this? Or are most screenreaders smart enough to read a zip code or phone number as digits anyway?
Read moreMonthly Accessibility Skype: Call for Topics: March 13, 4pm UTC/11am CDT
Call for Topics:
Please reply with suggested topics for our March Drupal Accessibility Skype Meeting.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
4pm UTC / 11am CDT
on Skype (contact m.gifford or brandonbowersox on Skype to be added to the group if this is your first time joining)
Note: Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. starts Sunday 3/11, so this event is now at 4pm UTC.
Anyone interested in working on Accessibility using Drupal is invited.
Please respond with suggested topics
Read moreSuperfish with directional arrows?
Has anyone seen a good implementation of Superfish or Mega Menu that lets the user tab through top level links, but use directional arrows to move back and forth in submenus?
Read moreForm error UX feedback wanted
I'd like feedback on a proposal for how Form Errors work in Drupal 8 core:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/209513
I've created that Wiki page with proposed screenshots in response to the lengthy discussion in issue #447816 about how Drupal core FAPI indicates form validation errors using color.
Read morestyle switchers and changes in contrast
Hello all,
I trust it is in order to post this question here. If not, please accept my apologies and feel free to direct me to a more appropriate group/forum.
I am assisting in the design of a site for the Visually Impaired Computer Society based in Ireland. One of the requirements is that the site design cater for those with residual vision; namely those who are visually impaired. My question is a simple one. Is there a module, or suite of modules available for Drupal 7.x which will:
- enable us to change the styles on the site;
- enable us to change colour contrasts;
Form Error Design Wiki
Let's use this wiki page to share and tweak proposed designs for accessible form field identification.
The issue queue discussion in issue #447816 comment #260 raised a lot of questions. Let's try to develop a design that handles all the cases discussed. Once we have consensus and the Accessibility and UX teams give feedback, we can then open a new issue with a more concise plan of action and roll patches. Let's get this done for D8!
Read moredoes any accessible wysiwyg editors exist?
hello there
i'm a starter a drupal, and i'm getting used to it.
i got a question..
that is there any wysiwyg editors exist, that screen readers could work with them?
from my understanding, a wysiwyg editor is something that an user can easily use the mouse to drag and drop objects, make headings/lists, and the html code of it will pop out.
i have no experience with html, and i don't know how much hard it is.. or do i even have the time to learn it.
i have googled some.. and just found xStandard that could be accessible, but it seems that it is for drupal 6 only.
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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
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