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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.

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how to make text resize work in corolla theme

Posted by dianacastillo on January 28, 2013 at 3:21pm

I installed the "text resize " module into the corolla theme and the buttons to increase and decrease text size dont do anything. Is there a better module for this that I can use? thanks

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Twin Cities Drupal Camp 2013 (MN)

Posted by kpoeppe on January 10, 2013 at 3:20pm
Start: 
2013-07-18 (All day) - 2013-07-21 (All day) UTC
Organizers: 
kpoeppe
Event type: 
Drupalcamp or Regional Summit

The Twin Cities Drupal Camp will be held Thursday, July 18 through Sunday, July 21 in Minneapolis MN. Camp kicks off with a day of classes on Thursday, followed by two days of workshops, and closes with a sprint on Sunday.

More information and registration is available at the camp website

If you would like more information, check out the website or you can reach out to the camp organizers at contact@tcdrupal.org

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Testing for contrast with buttons and gradients

Posted by dead_arm on December 14, 2012 at 5:57pm

Lately I have been doing color contrast testing for Drupal 8, and I've come across two examples that aren't as straight forward as text color on background color. I wanted to know in particular if there was already a standard for handling the instances described in these issues http://drupal.org/node/1858238 and http://drupal.org/node/1858206.

In issue 1858238, if both the text on button background, and button background on page background should pass the color contrast WCAG AA threshold.

In issue 1858206, what must pass when there is a gradient applied.

Thanks!

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Accessible Content and QUAIL 2.0

Posted by Anonymous on November 17, 2012 at 10:23pm

After a few years hiatus from Accessible Content to pursue other things, the QUAIL project has moved on to version 2.0, and so too must the Accessible Content module.

QUAIL

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State of Drupal in education update

Posted by btopro on November 2, 2012 at 7:59pm

Just a quick community note about some momentum in projects that often times directly benefit the drupal edtech community.

LTI is moving along in the community it seems -- http://drupal.org/sandbox/jzornig/1809350

Epub would be an excellent format to support exports to which funnymonkey has some work into that I need to test -- http://drupal.org/project/epub_export

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Quick Intro

Posted by burlapdesign on October 29, 2012 at 7:50pm

After I "pouted" on the twitters about wanting to help with accessibility and not being sure how to do so, @ezufelt sent me over here and and asked that I introduce myself and raise my hand to help.
So here I am.
My name is Dillon, I live in Evanston (just outside Chicago) and have been working w/ Drupal now for 2+ years. I have a passion for making things accessible and creating good experiences.

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Accessibility issues during drupal installation

Posted by falcon03 on October 11, 2012 at 1:55pm

Hi all,

this month accessibility call gave me some inspiration...

Some time ago I was installing drupal 8 and I noticed some things that seem not so much accessible...

So, yesterday I installed again drupal and took some notes about the issues I discovered.

Now, I wonder what's the best way to report them in the issue cueue (I am a novice in drupal core development :-))?

Should I start a meta issue that links to related issues, so that we have a related issue for each problem?
And what component of core should I report issues against?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Drupal 8 Accessibility Evaluation Priorities

Posted by bowersox on October 9, 2012 at 4:44pm
Last updated by dewh2o on Fri, 2012-10-12 17:49

This wiki page is intended to compile a list of the priority pages or components of Drupal 8 that most need a formal accessibility evaluation before the release of Drupal 8. Edit this wiki page to add to the list. Add comments if you have different suggestions for how we compile an RFP, seek bids, and raise funds to have this evaluation completed.

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    Drupal Accessibility Sprint in Toronto (Nov 18 2012)

    Posted by Everett Zufelt on October 4, 2012 at 2:52pm
    Start: 
    2012-11-18 10:00 - 18:00 America/Toronto
    Organizers: 
    Everett Zufelt
    myplanet
    Event type: 
    Sprint

    November 16-18 is an exciting time to be in Toronto if you are interested in Drupal and Accessibility.

    Along with:

    Drupal Accessibility Sprint Toronto -- #a11ySprint

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    October Accessibility Skype Call: Suggest Topics Now: Oct. 9, 4pm UTC/11am CDT

    Posted by bowersox on September 30, 2012 at 2:57pm
    Start: 
    2012-10-09 11:00 - 12:00 America/Chicago
    Organizers: 
    bowersox
    mgifford
    Everett Zufelt
    Event type: 
    User group meeting

    Call for Topics:

    Please reply with suggested topics for our October Drupal Accessibility Skype Meeting. After a summer hiatus, there's a lot to discuss as Drupal 8 continues developing. Reply to suggest any topics.

    Tuesday, October 9, 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. This is a semi-regular event the Second Tuesday of the month.

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    How to Use Drupal 7 to Meet Your Accessibility Goals

    Posted by mgifford on September 27, 2012 at 2:13am
    Start: 
    2012-09-27 01:00 - 02:00 America/Montreal
    Organizers: 
    mgifford
    Event type: 
    Training (free or commercial)

    http://www.acquia.com/resources/acquia-tv/conference/how-use-drupal-7-me...

    I really should have posted this earlier, but hope that some folks here are able to join in on the Acquia webinar on accessibility I am giving tomorrow afternoon. I believe it will be available afterwards for those who want to watch it.

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    Accessibility Camp LA 2012

    Posted by christefano on September 9, 2012 at 8:19pm
    Start: 
    2012-10-20 09:00 - 16:30 America/Los_Angeles
    Organizers: 
    olegvb
    Event type: 
    Related event (ie. not Drupal specific)

    http://www.accessibilitycampla.org

    Accessibility Camp LA takes place Saturday, October 20, 2012 at CSU Northridge's University Student Union (18111 Nordhoff Street). The goal of the day is to provide an open, informal space where attendees will drive the agenda.

    Registration

    Accessibility Camp LA is completely free to attendees. Register at http://www.accessibilitycampla.org/register.php

    Interested in stepping up as an event sponsor (to help pay for lunch, t-shirts, disability-related accommodations, etc.)? Have a general question about the event? Want to be updated by e-mail as the event takes shape?

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    Accessibility for Drupal 8 Blocks and Layout initiative

    Posted by bowersox on August 21, 2012 at 5:02pm

    Let's take a look at the Blocks and Layout initiative Prototypes to give feedback on the ways these new UIs can be implemented for Drupal 8.

    Here is the latest Prototype:
    http://groups.drupal.org/node/242403
    (click "Add a Page" to get to the most important part of the UI, namely how to pick a layout for your page during the creation process)

    My initial impression is that this approach can be easily accessible because it is forms-based. It does not use any drag-n-drop interaction at all.

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    ASL interpreter at Chicago/CDMUG

    Posted by rgchi on August 17, 2012 at 2:37pm

    The Chicago Meet-up Drupal Users Group (CDMUG) now has an ASL/Sign Language Interpreter for the main presentations between 7-8:45pm for the remainder of 2012 monthly meetups.

    So if you know of a Deaf/HoH Drupaler in Chicago, please pass this along.

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    FCC Accessibility Hackathon Sept 6-7

    Posted by jimtobias on August 13, 2012 at 11:06am

    The FCC is holding a 2-day event called "Developing with Accessibility" (#devacc) at its HQ in Washington. You can find info here: http://www.fcc.gov/events/developing-accessibility and join the event listserv by emailing join-devacc@lists.wisc.edu.

    I understand from the event organizer that they'd like to have a Drupal presence. That could take 2 forms:

    • a presentation (remote if necessary, and possibly webcast on the FCC network) on Drupal accessibility, with Q&A and follow-up
    • Drupal accessibility projects offered by this group to attendees for hacking
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    pagestyle add choices to list of 4

    Posted by NewCreation on August 8, 2012 at 6:17pm

    Has anyone used pagestyle (drupal.org/project/pagestyle) that has added to the list of four combinations of font and background colors? I would like to add more combination choices. I am using the block style text links and am in Drupal 7.15. Thanks in advance.

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    Just a thank you

    Posted by rgchi on August 1, 2012 at 8:28pm

    I left IRC open today (#cdmug). Just after asking a question and some clarifying details, I had folks jumping left and right to help out. I love this community. The problem was solved and my boss impressed with the end result.

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    Aria Landmarks placement in page.tpl.php

    Posted by rgchi on July 11, 2012 at 3:15pm

    In our page.tpl.php theme override, there exists the following line.

    <!-- footer row: width = grid_width -->
    <?php print theme('grid_row', $footer . $footer_message, 'footer', 'full-width', $grid_width); ?>

    In order to correctly insert Aira Landmarks, am I correct in assuming the following:

    <!-- footer row: width = grid_width -->
    <span role="contentinfo">
    <?php print theme('grid_row', $footer . $footer_message, 'footer', 'full-width', $grid_width); ?>
    </span>
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    ELMS Beta and more!

    Posted by btopro on June 28, 2012 at 7:50pm

    Just wanted to leave a note about ELMS since I haven't jumped on here in awhile.

    ELMS is now beta and fully packaged on drupal.org
    ELMS Media (asset management solution we use to power our ELMS) has also been released

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