All you WCAG nuts this is the place for you: how to make Drupal more accessible. Hints, tips, discussion and patch proposals.
Is QUAIL daily automated testing far enough along for folks to start logging issues against errors and proposing patches?
To Kevin Miller, I'm so impressed with his work (and Dan Mouyard and Nick Schonning) getting the 2.0.3 tag on the QUAIL library cut.
QUAIL testing library 2.0.3 tag
Is this now the branch running on the Drupal 8 daily testing site?
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Drupal 8 Content Experience: Accessibility Findings
Drupal 8 Content Experience: Accessibility Findings
Goal
To conduct accessibility evaluation of Drupal 8 focussed on the content authoring experience (create content and edit content)
Methodology
The study was conducted in July 2013 in two phases:
Phase 1: Evaluation with volunteer Drupal users with accessibility needs. The participants were given the testing script with scenario and were asked to report their feedback
Phase 2: Conduct 3-participant moderated usability study consistent with the testing script (mentioned above).
Progress on accessibility module
Here's what will (hopefully) be a weekly post on progress with the Accessibility module, including calls to the community to give feedback on sticky problems.
Read moreDrupalCon Prague extended sprints: Join me for the accessibility sprint!
If you're headed to DrupalCon Prague this year, considering joining us before or after the conference for extended code sprints. We documenting participation in this spreadsheet so that we can accurately estimate the venue size we'll need to accommodate the crowds of coders. The accessibility section is around row 96.
Read moreDrupalCon Prague core conversation posted
Proposed Session: Building a drupal core accessibility team: progress since DrupalCon München
Let me know in comments on the proposed session if you'd like me to talk about a specific topic.
Read moreDrupal Accessibility Scrum #6
Weekly scrum call for folks working on accessibility issues in Drupal core and contrib.
The event is recorded and the recording will be made available here shortly after the conclusion of the meeting.
Read moreWill you be attending DrupalCon Prague 2013? Join us for sprints!
If you plan to attend DrupalCon Prague this year, consider joining me for code sprints to address accessibility issues in Drupal 8.
Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtDYnjV5l0uydHRoVTlZaXlfUWZ...
Read moreDrupal Accessibility Scrum #4
Recording: http://youtu.be/8XiiM_9C6QY
Again, it was not well attended. Just me and Dharmesh. I would love love love for folks to be involved with this short, quick meeting because it gives us a chance to check in, discuss blockers and set expectations for our next week of contributing. It's only 15 minutes and will only ever be 15 minutes -- I am an intense defender of time.
Notes from this week:
Present
Jesse Beach
Dharmesh Mistry
Reports
Jesse Beach
Invalid forms are not discernable to non-sighted users
Would anyone like to co-present a core accessibility conversation at Prague with me?
Core conversation proposals for Prague are due soon.
https://prague2013.drupal.org/submit-session
I'd like to give an update on our work. It seems there a great opportunity for someone else here to get on stage with me and go through the highlights and list out what still needs attention. Let me know here if you'd like to join me in proposing this session.
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Do we want to keep using HTML List elements for site navigation?
Do we still need to put site navigation markup in lists?
Have you read this article about site navigation and HTML markup? http://css-tricks.com/navigation-in-lists-to-be-or-not-to-be/
Read moreRecapping Twin Cities Drupal Camp sessions, lessons and sprinting
Accessibility recap
Behavioral tests
I'm trying to get open links to the raw footage. I contacted dcmistry about this.
Our takeaways are that:
- Drupal is not as accessible as we even dared to hope.
- Content creation is painful and at points impossible for a non-sighted user.
- The overlay is unusable for a non-sighted person. It's really painful to watch someone get lost in it.
Accessibility in 8 session
Take home points.
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Coffeebreak Colombia - Universidad Central
devcoffee.arriendonline.com
Evento para compartir y aprender conocimiento sobre temas como: Arquitectura de información, experiencia de usuario [UX], gestión y planeación de proyectos, accesibilidad, usabilidad y desarrollo para móviles.
Invitados internacionales mediante videoconferencias y nacionales de forma presencial.
Cada conferencia dura una hora.
HORA: 8.00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.
Lugar: Auditorio 6to Piso Universidad Central Sede Norte Bogotá.
100 cupos previo registro en el sitio web del evento:
http://devcoffee.arriendonline.com/registro
CRONOGRAMA:
7:00 a 8:00:
Read moreDrupal Accessibility Scrum #3
This is a weekly scrum call for anyone who wants to be involved with Drupal core accessibility development.
I'll post a URL to a Hangout in this issue at 10:40am on Tuesday morning. I still haven't figured out how to set up an event with a Hangout beforehand.
I'll also post a link to the Hangout here:
https://plus.google.com/communities/116142008905484579065
I moved the time to 10:40am to make it more convenient for west coast attendees.
Read moreAccessibility module
Thanks to the help of Jesse and others, I have been granted access to the accessibility module on Drupal.org and merged in a sandbox project that merges several disparate modules around content, theming, and automated testing.
You can find out more on the project page about what's included, the one sub-module we are missing is one for generalized reporting, which is difficult given that all testing is client-side now, but I am looking for a co-maintainer to take things on.
Read moreFeedback needed: Drupal Accessibility testing script
Please take a moment to review the testing plan assembled by Dharmesh and Terrill.
You can leave comments in the document or in this thread.The more input we gather, the better the test will be.
Read moreDrupal Accessibility Scrum
This is a weekly scrum call for anyone who wants to be involved with Drupal core accessibility development.
I'll post a URL to a Hangout in this issue at 9:40am on Tuesday morning. I still haven't figured out how to set up an event with a Hangout beforehand.
I'll also post a link to the Hangout here:
https://plus.google.com/communities/116142008905484579065
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Free accessibility webinar July 16, 2013 3:00 pm EST
My boss is delivering this webinar, and since I am not a huge fan of shameless seIf plugs, I wouldn't have posted it if it wasn't a free webinar, so any and all are welcome to join!
- Learn the components of web accessibility and how are they related and managed by the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative.
- Go beyond the Guidelines – WCAG, UAAG, ATAG, and ARIA – to the supporting documents and tutorials that are freely available.
- Learn about how WAI-Engage and other community resources can support your expanding web accessibility knowledge and skills.
DrupalCamp Twin Cities 2013
Registration is now open for DrupalCamp Twin Cities, July 18-21st, held at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, MN. http://2013.tcdrupal.org
We're very excited about this year's DrupalCamp. We have a record number of sessions submissions, some really excellent keynote speakers, and the best DrupalCamp parties in the country. Before camp the University of MN is hosting a weeklong Accessibility testing of Drupal 8 and we have Accessibility, Twig, Media and Core sprints happening after the camp.
Read moreTables of links
Since screen reader users often navigate pages by reading just the link text, one of the accessibility guidelines is that link text should not be the same for links that point to different pages and link text should make sense on its own (e.g., no "click here").
Read moreFirst accessibility scrum call is a failure
Dharmesh and I were the only two folks to attend the scrum call. This is probably because we're in the same office and I went and pulled him into the meeting. So, the question is, how did the tools fail?
Dharmesh and I went through the Google Event creation/invitation process and it's not good. You only get notification of an invitation to an event in your notification stream, not your email. And nobody checks their Google notification stream; it's just too cluttered and non-obvious.
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