Accessibility module update

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My plan to do weekly updates about the Accessibility module was quickly derailed by an injury, but I'm slowly getting back on the saddle and off pain meds, and wanted to let everyone know what's been going on the past few weeks.

First, the Drupal 8 branch of the module is now in feature parity with the Drupal 7 module. This means that we are well on our way of having a full release by the time Drupal 8 comes out. Because of better entity APIs and WYSIWYG in core, the 8 branch is 1/3 lighter than the 7.x branch.

Second, there's been a little cleanup in the issue queue and a lot of bugs found and squashed, shout out to kevintheday and hefox for all the help. We now have features integration in Drupal 7 (Drupal 8 is almost there with exporting entities as configuration), a much better console for giving users feedback on problems, and some updated documentation as well.

Things that are left to work on is cleaning up some of the default test language, making sure we have good internationalization support for tests, integration between the devel themer module and the accessibility themer module, and solving some tricky testswarm integration problems when hitting max variables of a PHP environment.

All told, I hope to have a beta available by the end of BadCamp (this month!), where a number of people have indicated they would like to help out with testing.