So, personally, I don't dabble much in Accessibility and don't know much about it. It's definitely on my list of things to get into, but as you can imagine for any developer, that list is very long. That being said, I saw something really cool today and automatically thought - Accessibility.
I try to make a habit of looking for innovation outside of Drupal community. So obviously, I troll github.com/explore. And I found this nifty little stylesheet:
https://github.com/redroot/holmes
Basically, you add it in, add a class to your body, and it'll highlight for you all the things that are not w3c compliant. This is already a big win out of the box, but to shout out to all accessibility people out there - wonder if this could be extended even more to check for accessibility compliance. It already checks for missing alt tags on images, and deprecated and non compliant elements, but do you guys see a cool way to extend this and use CSS (and maybe even some js) to detect quick wins for any website going out the door to be more accessible?
Just a rant :) Chime in!
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Great find!I've been using
Great find!
I've been using Juicy Studio Accessibility plugin for Firefox (YouTube explanation) with some good results. It mostly focuses on Aria Landmarks and color differential, but it's another great tool in the arsenal.
Have you been over to Drupal Accessibility Group? I find some great information there.
Of course nothing beats, turning on Jaws, Ocra, or Voice over, unplugging the mouse, and turning off the monitor to truly experience vision-less browsing. Spoiler alert: it mostly sucks.
Oh wow I can imagine. I would
Oh wow I can imagine. I would love to find out more about these tools / how to use them and what the use cases generally are (CDMUG/CADUG presentation? hint hint). I've tried voiceover when my cats turn it on while walking on the keyboard, but that's about it. Joined up the Accessibility group too :)
Really interesting stuff. I'm surprised more SEO people aren't all about it since "google is the largest blind user on the planet".
Well, at my workplace, we're
Well, at my workplace, we're currently assembling a wiki on the matter mostly for internal best practices. Though I'm thinking about blogging on the matter myself as I try to absorb and process all of the ever changing information.
Presentation... I'd often thought about that but find myself on the newer (shy) end of Drupal development. Though I may have a coworker who recently presented on Aria Landmarks and I've recently added those to one of our sites.
I'm game if anyone's interested in the topic.
Existing work & limitations
@MrMaksimize thanks for posting this. I like Holmes CSS. I posted this blog about it last year. There was also a guy who made a Drupal 6 module for it a while back, unfortunately he hasn't released the code on Drupal.org yet.
@richardgoodrow appreciate pointing this tread to the Accessibility Group. There is also quite a lot available in handbooks which can be reached through http://drupal.org/about/accessibility
Holmes catches some accessibility issues, but only some of the low hanging fruit. It's useful for content editors, but certainly not as powerful as something like WAVE which still won't catch all accessibility challenges.
There's lots of great work being done on ARIA, particularly with the Drupal 8 issue queue.
We're always happy to find new ways to engage folks with Accessibility & Drupal, so feel free to start up a new issue if you've got some ideas.
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