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.

KeithH's picture

Accessible Web-design with Screen-readers and Druapl7.x

Hello folks.
First of all, I do not know if you folks can even help me out, so I thought I'd ask here.
I don't have money to higher a full-time web designer, but I need as much assistance as I can get in designing accessible websites with Drupal7.x.
Everything from incorperating same page links, to tips that range from visually compeling stuff as well.
I'm also concerned with Drupal7 as far as how well W3C designs regardless of the HTMl standard in use passes the validation processes.
Any help would be much appreciated!

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List of Drupal websites with certified accessibility (WCAG)

This wikipage aims to provide a list of Drupal websites with a certified accessiblity statement.

European Union

Accreditation body list: EuraCert

Address Organisation level certificate background
None Drupal

India

Accreditation body list: National Informatics Centre

Address Organisation level certificate background
None Drupal

http://web.guidelines.gov.in/compliance.php

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Jeff Burnz's picture

Design Challenges

The Design Initiative has three main goals - build a new core theme, build a new collaboration site for designers, and community outreach. The new core theme initiative is well under way and we're tantalizingly close to design.drupal.org becoming a reality. What we need to do now is step up a gear and start thinking about outreach.

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Hanno's picture

Accessibility and maps

Hi, I posted an issue in the OpenLayers queue to improve the accessibility of maps in Drupal. OpenLayers is widely used by governmental organisations and so it is useful to have a look at the acessibility.

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Jeff Burnz's picture

Design for Mobile - bikeshed!

We need to start thinking and talking about what approaches we're going to take in Drupal 8 with regards to design for mobile.

My own opinion is that we should probably be looking really closely at responsive design and how we might apply or adapt the patterns emerging in that field. The idea of "one web" and a unified design and user experience independent of device appeals to me. I don't want an impoverished mobile experience, so please don't assume what I want to see or do just because I'm on a tablet or handset.

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Frank Ralf's picture

"Universal Design for Web Accessibility - Solutions for barrier-free user experiences" (book in progress)

Just learned about this new book in progress by Sarah Horton & Whitney Quesenbery:

http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/web-accessibility/

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Hanno's picture

Language of Parts

Any experience how Drupal is able to meet this requirement for text parts in another language then the node language:
"3.1.2 Language of Parts: The human language of each passage or phrase in the content can be programmatically determined except for proper names, technical terms, words of indeterminate language, and words or phrases that have become part of the vernacular of the immediately surrounding text. (Level AA)" http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#meaning-other-lang-id

The recommended solution is to use the lang-attribute.

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mgifford's picture

Validation: HTML5, RDFa & WAI-ARIA

I want to validate a site built with Drupal 7 (with RDFa enabled), using a Genesis's HTML5 sub-theme & with lots of WAI-ARIA added for accessibility.

Looks like with - http://validator.nu - we can do HTML5 & ARIA.

But really not sure how to also evaluate for the RDFa as well.

The W3C doesn't seem to like it either although it can to XHTML & RDFA apparently - http://validator.w3.org

Some guidance on validation would be appreciated. I have heard that someones is maintaining a custom schema for HTML5 & RDFA, but not sure how to use it.

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dcmouyard's picture

CSUN, Accessibility, and Drupal

One of the sessions at the 26th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference was about Drupal.

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like they recorded the session (CSUN, Accessibility, and Drupal) but there's an interesting white paper. Is anybody here involved with this project?

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tofumidget's picture

Brief accessibility review for Drupal implementation for NARIC

Hi folks --

At Drupalcon I mentioned we are doing a full-scale usability and accessibility of our redesigned website (under development at http://www.drupal-dev.naric.com/drupal-7.0/) Attached is brief, preliminary review of our development site. The Paciello Group reviewed three templates and a handful of pages for us. I'm still going through and making changes based on their recommendations. Some are more challenging for me than others. CSS I can fix. PHP, not so much. For example:
-Accessibility of the Feedback module
-"more" link in the aggregator feed (needs context)

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Liam Morland's picture

Accessibility and navigation skip-links

I am trying to sort through the most accessible way of structuring the navigation links and skip-links on a page. Consider a page with top-nav/header, content, and bottom-nav/footer. Since we can move things around with CSS, there are a a few ways of structuring the source order:

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JamalMazrui's picture

Nonvisual site development with Drupal 7

I have lurked for a little while, and this is my first post to this group. I have met some of you in person or virtually in other contexts, and appreciate your contributions to Drupal accessibility. In learning Drupal 7, myself, I have encountered some problems as a blind developer for which I have not yet found solutions (though I have done much reading of Drupal books and web articles). I hope some of you may have helpful thoughts on the following issues, divided into Blocks and Views; Content Types and Forms; and Status and Error Messages.

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bowersox's picture

Drupal 8 Accessibility Skype Planning Session

Start: 
2011-04-05 11:00 - 12:00 America/Chicago
Organizers: 
Event type: 
Online meeting (eg. IRC meeting)

Proposed Agenda

  1. Drupal 8 accessibility gate: Discuss our standards and process for 8 so we can finalize and propose to Dries. See http://groups.drupal.org/node/133034 .
  2. Drupal 8 battle plans: Brief sharing of your personal battle plan, and strategizing together. If you put your personal battle plan in writing in advance, please share a link to it here.
  3. Google Summer of Code: We are invited to submit accessibility project ideas, due before April 8. See http://groups.drupal.org/node/138009 .
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Accessible Helper Module Documentation

Use Cases: How is the Accessible Helper module useful or intended to be useful?

These lists should translate to feature requests in the issue queue if they are not already part of the functionality

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johnbarclay's picture

Accessible Helper Module for Drupal 7

I dusted off the Drupal 7 version of the Accessible Helper module. Its been ages so I needed to get it working against Drupal 7.0.

Here is the release url: http://drupal.org/node/1094010
And the project is at: http://drupal.org/project/accessible

Accessible_Help Module

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mgifford's picture

Reflection on Accessibility of DrupalCon's

I was impressed to see the number of people at DrupalCon this year with a visible disability. I didn't get to speak with hardly any of them, but I do think it's worth while to look at measures that have been made to make our events more accessible. I'm hoping that London is able to learn from & improve the experiences of people attending. I don't know what feedback #DrupalChi was collecting from attenders, but...

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bowersox's picture

Accessibility for Drupal 8 BoF Notes

BoF at DrupalCon Chicago 2011 3/10/2011 11:00am

Attendees:

Everett Zufelt (via Skype)
Mike Gifford
Jessica Chaiken
Kathy Kahl
Dan Mouyard
Jennifer Hodgdon
John Barclay
Brandon Bowersox

Topics

The group agreed on three topics for the BoF:

  1. Gates and guidelines for D8
  2. What we missed in D7 to fix for D8
  3. Empowering themers and developers with documentation
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Jeff Burnz's picture

Accessibility Testing for Drupal 8

In the BoF the other night the issue of testing accessibility was raised, I thought this was very interesting and we certainly need to move forward form the ad-hoc methods we used in Drupal 7 development and I think formalize our testing procedures and methods.

Examples include standardizing on software used in testing, for example a defined list of AT such as screen-readers and versions.

We certainly need to raise our game with regards to user testing also, perhaps looking to arrange defined rounds of end user testing at various points during development.

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Accessibility Gate Ideas for Drupal 8

NOTE: D8 Core gates are now posted.

Background

Dries suggested in his keynote that accessibility, usability and performance would all the "gates" that new Drupal 8 core patches should pass before being accepted. In a later follow-up question, he said he is looking for input on what accessibility standards should guide these decisions.

This wiki page contains ideas about what the accessibility standards for Drupal 8 should be. Feel free to edit the wiki or post suggestions in the comments.

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mfratkin's picture

Accessible Drupal collaboration site

We are looking for an an example of an accessible collaboration Drupal application. Does anyone know if this exists and if so can you direct me to the site so that we can test it? Thanks you.

Mike

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