Accessibility

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

Accessibility Testing for Drupal 8

Posted by Jeff Burnz on March 10, 2011 at 5:00pm

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.

Accessibility Gate Ideas for Drupal 8

Posted by bowersox on March 10, 2011 at 4:06pm
Last updated by mgifford on Mon, 2012-10-15 12:23

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.

Accessible Drupal collaboration site

Posted by mfratkin on March 9, 2011 at 8:04pm

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

Accessibility BoF at DrupalCon Chicago

Posted by bowersox on March 8, 2011 at 3:11pm

There is an Accessibility BoF today in the Ontario Room 3:15PM - 4:15PM.

Details and comments:
http://chicago2011.drupal.org/conference/bof/accessibility-bof

@Everett, perhaps you can join us by Skype at that time (3:15 Central Time).

Open source, Drupal and Usability

Posted by dcmistry on February 28, 2011 at 7:38pm

Hi All,

I am considering to present a talk on open source and usability. Since the scope of this is too broad, I am focusing on the BIG CONCERNS of open source (especially Drupal) with respect to usability and user experience and the ways we intend to tackle them. I am particularly interested in getting YOUR reactions to this as it provides me with a fresh perspective on things.

Thank you!

Looking For Generalized Solutions for CSS display:none; Alternates

Posted by mgifford on January 18, 2011 at 10:39pm

last year I started an email exchange with an accessibility expert here in Canada. As I pointed out last year, there is a wealth of information on Drupal about strengths/weaknesses of any accessibility enhancements that can be useful for other tools.

The threads of discussion on the CSS display:none; start in April 2006 and was fixed in August 2009 in core:
http://drupal.org/node/58941
http://drupal.org/node/473396

It was then later determined to be broken again VoiceOver, so it was rewritten:
http://drupal.org/node/718922

The end result that was found was:

Please comment on this missing ALT attribute bug - oEmbed module

Posted by nfreear on January 12, 2011 at 4:55pm

Hi Everyone,

I've just created this accessibility bug on the oEmbed filter for Drupal (D6 and D7),
http://drupal.org/node/1024470

I would welcome any comments and suggestion for improvements.

Many thanks,

Nick

Meet to discuss issues that didn't make it into D7 and are pushed to D8

Posted by coderintherye on January 11, 2011 at 11:09pm

Hi guys, I'd like to revive a meeting of the a11y folks to discuss issues that didn't make the cut for D7 so we can create some fresh D8 issues for them.

For instance, a short discussion with sun about http://drupal.org/node/447816 came to the conclusion we should create two new issues out of that one based on webchick's b) and c) in #232.

There are other a11y issues that got pushed back to D8. What is our strategy going to be? Please add up links to other issues we should discuss.

D7 A11y Contributors

Posted by bowersox on January 7, 2011 at 5:24pm

A roll call of the 395 amazing people who contributed in the issue queue to make accessibility-related improvements to Drupal 7 core. The list is sorted by the number of posts each person made in the queue, either filing an issue, writing a patch, testing, suggesting an approach or committing.

mgifford 1383
Everett Zufelt 1021
Jeff Burnz 412

DrupalCon Chicago AT BoF/Booth

Posted by bowersox on January 5, 2011 at 6:26pm

I'd like to run with the idea for allowing conference-goers to try out assistive technology at DrupalCon Chicago.

Drupal 7 Accessibility Announcement

Posted by bowersox on January 5, 2011 at 3:53pm
Last updated by bowersox on Wed, 2011-01-05 15:53

For people who are interested in more details about Drupal 7 accessibility, I suggest that we should post an accessibility announcement in conjunction with the release of 7. I've suggested a sample below for discussion purposes. This is a wiki page, so feel free to edit. The group of accessibility contributors accomplished so much that it seems like cause for announcement, celebration, and looking ahead. -Brandon

Help write the D7 release announcement blurb on Accessibility

Posted by webchick on December 31, 2010 at 11:38pm

http://sandbox.stevekarsch.com/d7/announcement.html has a copy of the D7 release announcement. We need some help on the accessibility blurb. Could someone please comment with a suggestion at http://drupal.org/node/953314 ?

Article Accessibility Testing Request

Posted by KeithH on November 16, 2010 at 1:44am

I posted an article on my testing Drupal site, and wanted to know what you folks think about it.
Posted the link on IRC, but also thought I'd post it here for convenience reasons. All comments to the article may be submitted on the article page.
Also feel free to comment directly here as well.
Thanks.
The link to the article itself is provided below:
http://news.keithnet.us/?q=node/4
Enjoy!

Drupalcon Chicago session proposals

Posted by Everett Zufelt on November 3, 2010 at 11:49pm

I'm wondering if anyone is planning on proposing a session for Drupalcon Chicago. I was hoping that we could work together as a group to plan a set of excellent and complimentary accessibility sessions.

An overview of navigating drupal with a screenreader

Posted by KeithH on October 26, 2010 at 7:29pm

Hi all! There was some recently interest in the #drupal channel on Freenode by a few folks about how accessible was the interface for navigating drupal7?
Well, to that end, I've created an audio tutorial.
I didn't go into too much detail, but hear are the links.
The ogg vorbis format if you wish to download that is at:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2433426/An%20overview%20of%20Drupal7-with-a-scre...
And the MP3 format is available at:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2433426/An%20overview%20of%20Drupal7-with-a-scre...

User Interface Options module

Posted by Everett Zufelt on October 22, 2010 at 12:26pm

In a recent issue, [#936926-62: Update color scheme for status-based issue tables and issue link filter], the question of allowing users the option to customize UI preferences was raised. This is not the first time that this question has come up. In fact in Drupal 7 we have at least two UI options for accessibility, the ability to show row weights on table drag, and the ability to disable the Overlay.

Drupal accessibility on Web Axe podcast episode 85

Posted by Everett Zufelt on October 21, 2010 at 9:57am

I was happy to be invited as a guest of the Web Axe podcast to discuss Drupal 7 accessibility. For those who are unfamiliar, Web Axe is a podcast focusing on practical web design accessibility. You can find the episode on the Web Axe site:

http://webaxe.blogspot.com/2010/10/podcast-85-drupal-7-accessibility.html

Drupal 7 Usability Tasks to test

Posted by xamount on October 20, 2010 at 8:10pm
Last updated by bowersox on Wed, 2010-11-03 17:10

Hi All,

I am trying to come up with a listing of Drupal 7 tasks by end users than we can test for accessibility. I have included some tasks below to get the ball rolling, feel free to add your tasks. I'm not sure if this was done already, but the plan is to come up with some tasks, and then test them against actual users with disabilities and see what improvements can be made.

The tasks are:

Creating a user account
Requesting a new password
Changing your password
Posting a comment

Looking for reviewers for Adaptivetheme for Drupal 7

Posted by Jeff Burnz on October 18, 2010 at 3:22am

Hi peeps - I'm looking for anyone who might stick their hand up and volunteer to help review the Drupal 7 version of Adaptivetheme - I really want this to be the most accessible version of the theme ever and I need some help and feedback from real users.

There are a couple of areas I need to hone in on:

Structure (sectioning and headings).
Custom theme settings forms.

Adding Strings for Translation for Accessibility

Posted by mgifford on October 13, 2010 at 4:58pm

There are a number of places where for accessibility in D7 we still need to add strings to fields in core. There are still quite a few missing labels for fields in and this is very important so that individuals using screen readers have an opportunity to understand what the field represents. We want to do this however in a way which doesn't loading a tonne more work on translators.

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