Accessibility

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

At the Accessibility Sprint in Montreal today, I noted a certain degree of frustration with UI changes being committed before they've been reviewed for impacts on accessibility.

And then when I got home tonite I remembered that Randy Fay has started an initiative to provide some form of governance for Drupal (http://drupal.org/node/1526026). Unfortunately, the discussion so far has been mostly about conflict resolution which, to my mind at least, is actually somewhat peripheral to governance.