Accessibility

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All you WCAG nuts this is the place for you: how to make Drupal more accessible. Hints, tips, discussion and patch proposals.

Everett Zufelt's picture

Resuming monthly accessibility conference calls

During the accessibility BoF at Drupalcon London several people showed interest in resuming the monthly conference calls that we have had in the past.

I would be happy to participate in these calls, and think we should get started. There are several initiatives that require some attention, primarily:

  1. html5 accessibility (including WAI-ARIA in Core)
  2. WYSIWYG in Core
  3. Further triage and patches for open accessibility issues
  4. ...

I'm hoping that someone will volunteer to organize these calls so that we can:

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Everett Zufelt's picture

Drupal Accessibility on Twitter

Just a quick post to let everyone know that @DrupalA11y is now on Twitter.

The account is setup to automatically post from the feeds of this group, and from the Drupal Core issue queue for issues tagged "accessibility".

If you have any suggestions for a Twitter profile bio for the account please let me know.

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LewisNyman's picture

Mobile Usability Testing Sprint - Facts & Findings

On the Friday of Drupalcon London we ran a Mobile Usability Testing Session on Drupal's admin interface.

View the issue spreadsheet on google docs

We had a strong turnout, with lots of enthusiasm from the testers. We managed to test the UI on the following devices:

  • Nokia N900
  • Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc
  • HTC Sensation
  • Samsung galaxy s2
  • iPad 2
  • iPhone 4
  • iPhone 3GS
  • iPhone 3G

Here are some of the thoughts I came away with after the session.

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Charles Belov's picture

Module to automatically prevent "click here" links?

Is there a module that would or could prevent content providers from creating links consisting solely of "click here" or "here" (for link accessibility) or even preventing those words from appearing in a link at all (for link conciseness)?

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Hanno's picture

custom date formats

When publishing a calendar or an overview of news items, the dates are often in a short custom format, like '12 Sep', or '2/7'. From an accessibility point of view, should a theme or view also provide the full date format?
With abbreviated months should we use the abbr tag for the month? like:
<abbr title="August">Aug.</abbr> (http://www.littlewebhut.com/html/abbr_tag/)

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Inspector508's picture

WCAG 2.0 Level AA

This is Todd at the University of Iowa.

We're just scratching the surface of Drupal here--three or four departments are letting our central web group pilot. We have a couple of really sharp developers and a deep commitment to accessibility. What we're missing is a good understanding of our options for integrating the two. Some things I'd very much like to know--an incomplete list:

How to add uncommon attributes to HTML tags (e.g., scope="col" to a

tag, or
)

Setting divs and other regions as ARIA landmarks (aria-live, aria-required)

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Hanno's picture

DrupalCon BoF: accessibility in D8

Start: 
2011-08-23 14:15 - 15:15 Europe/London
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

We have planned a meeting on accessibility in D8 on Tuesday 14:15 BST during DrupalCon London. In looking ahead to building Drupal 8 we want to talk about how we can best approach AA compliance of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. Implementing the accessibility gate in a way that is understandable by Drupal developers, providing useful examples to make it easier for them to grapple with the challenges of accessibility.

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daniel.nitsche's picture

WCAG 2.0 G83: Providing text descriptions to identify required fields that were not completed

Has anyone ever tried implementing this in Drupal?
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/G83

Specifically, I'm looking at adding an error message to the page title:

It is also best practice to include an error notification in the page title (title element) since a screen reader user is likely to believe the page was submitted correctly and continue to navigate to another page as soon as the new page is returned instead of reading the main content area of the page again.

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Charles Belov's picture

Accessibility of italics in the administrative UI

I saw a demo of the Views 3.0 module today at Berkeley Drupal Users Group (BDUG) today. The presenter noted that if a page that is part of a tabbed-pages view differs from the default of the view, the differing options are displayed in the Views UI as italics. I haven't seen the view source of the page, so it may well be empasis tags.

But the larger issue, is marking content with italics or emphasis to distinguish that it has a certain quality, e.g., not a default value, considered sufficient for accessibility, without some other indication that would be read out, e.g., an asterisk?

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Drupal compliance overview of ATAG 2.0

Table to do a quickscan on which points Drupal is compliant to ATAG 2.0 (draft version 21 July 2011) and which points needs work.
Notes:

  • This is a scan on Drupal 7 core modules, but implementation of ATAG is focused on Drupal 8
  • The new initiatives in Drupal 8 (configuration management, web services, design, multilingual and html5), have an impact on Drupal 8 ATAG compliance
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dcmistry's picture

Usability and Accessibility, do they make sense together?: UPA Boston Meeting

UPA (Usability Professionals' Association) Boston is having a meeting on July 20, 2011 for a night of accessibility at the MIT Stata Center in Cambridge.

CONSIDER ATTENDING IF YOU AROUND THE AREA AND INTERESTED IN THE TOPIC.

LINK: http://2011julyupa.eventbrite.com/?utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&...

The topic to be discussed:
Usability and Accessibility, do they make sense together?

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Charles Belov's picture

Improving accessibility oversight for a website

Often a single organization will have multiple staff creating content. The staff member who is most concious of accessibility requirements will often discover content that other staff members have added that are not as accessible as they might be, if only because certain checks cannot be automated. It would be good if Drupal modules provided productivity tools for these individuals who have oversight whether by responsibility or default.

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Jeff Burnz's picture

Skype meeting to discuss the accessibility gate

Start: 
2011-07-18 09:00 - 10:00 America/Vancouver
Organizers: 
Event type: 
Online meeting (eg. IRC meeting)

This meeting is to discuss the Accessibility Gate for Drupal 8. The meeting will be a conference call in Skype. If you would like to attend the meeting please add me as a contact in Skype and I will add you to the meeting group: jmburnz

There have been several differing approaches proposed for the gate and the meeting is to discuss these and look for a broad consensus.

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Jeff Burnz's picture

design.drupal.org Prototype for Review

Over the past few months we've been working away behind the scenes on the Drupal Design site prototype. There are quite a number of technical considerations when building a new drupal.org sub-site so these needed to be ironed out before we could really show this off.

I've posted a number of screen grabs to Notable and we can use these to collect comments and feedback on the various screens throughout the site - you can leave general comments here but if you're wanting to leave comments about the actual screens please post those to Notable.

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KeithH's picture

Using Drush properly as a totally blind Drupal user.

Hi folks, I'm the creater of a new podcast wich was recently developed, that primarily runs on Drupal, off of a Linode server here in the U.S since that's where I am, and for those of you thtat wish to check it out it's at
http://www.keithnet.us
Hope you all like it!
However, I'm a totally blind Drupal systems administrator, and that being said, chose Druapl7 alone, over Druapl6, as I do not care about the lack of modules.
From what I understand, Drupal 6 will begin to level off and stop being supported at some point once Drupal8 becomes reality.
So, hear is what I wanted to know.

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Defining the Drupal 8 accessibility gate

NOTE: D8 Core gates are now posted.

Hi there, accessibility team! :)

Back at DrupalCon Chicago, Dries outlined a strategy for Drupal 8 involving a series of "gates" that would help ensure core code quality in a number of different categories: Documentation, Performance, Accessibility, Usability, and Testing. The purpose of gates is to define essentially a set of "checkboxes" which outline the most important aspects to each category, and does so in a way that is both not overwhelming to core developers (list of hoops to jump through is kept as small as possible) and also creates very little additional burden on the team in question (contains sample links to documentation/resources so developers/reviewers can help themselves).

Since we have already traditionally had requirements around documentation, it made sense to start there. Jennifer Hodgdon and some other folks from the documentation team have put together the Documentation gate, which is available at http://drupal.org/node/1203498. What we need is a similar table for each of the other gate areas. And that's where you come in! :D

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Clive Lansink's picture

Links for adjusting font sizes

Hello

In addition to links to skip to the main content of web pages, people nowadays seem often to want links for adjusting contrast and font size. Is this easy using Drupal and can someone please head me in the right direction regarding this?

Thank you.

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bowersox's picture

aria-label property

Should Drupal be using the aria-label property on any form fields?

So far our FAPI accessibility efforts have focused on making sure there is always a Label attribute. We make sure the Label is connected to the form element by ID. And we allow module developers to choose the location of their label (before, after, hidden off-screen, etc.)

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KeithH's picture

How to adjust font sizes in Drupal 7.x

Hi folks.
I was wondering something.
Last night, when I had someone visit my website wich you all may review at:
http://keithnet.dyndns.org
I was told seriously that the font is not optimal for people with low vision.
As I have committed myself to insureing my site is optimized for low vision users as well as screen reader users, hear is what I need to know.
It should be noted that I'm using Druapl Core without modification, I.e. No eextra themes, etc.
What I'm using is the default Draupl core layout as designed after an installation witht he bartic theme.

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rteijeiro's picture

drupal.org problem with screenreaders

Hi.

I have received this email from a coworker mailing list. I think it must be considered in order to avoid similar problems.

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