accessibility

I am working on a Drupal 10 site with a Bootstrap 5 (Barrio) custom theme. I have some older followers who would find it easier to view the site if the type was larger. I want to provide a large-print option for them. Is there a way (such as a user-selectable option) to accomplish this through the theme?

It looks as if "Userway" is an option, but it is expensive and offers several features that I don't need.

It's essentially undocumented on the web and in Drupal that a content editor who uploads an image can make a required alt text produce an empty alt tag with "" in the alt text field.

I think it would be a much better editor experience to have a checkbox: "This image is decorative and provides no information not already present in text."

This would then produce the empty alt tag for them.

It would also help people learn about the purpose of alt text (and maybe make us think more about using images that do provide some value).

Recently, the Chief Information Officer for the Government of Canada - Alex Benay - posted on LinkedIn, seeking input on the following:

"Open source is not accessible compliant."

I'm writing a formal response and wanted to get feedback from the community, specifically the working group on Drupal accessibility.

While we can only speak to accessibility in Drupal, I think it's important to have well-formed arguments that disprove this statement. This is definitely the best place to get those from.

Looking forward to your responses.

Hi!

I recently posted an issue to IMCE to make it more accessible (link below). I also noticed that IMCE is listed as one of the modules this group (the Drupal Accessibility Group) has listed on its Wiki page as one that it would really like to take the #D8AX pledge. What can be done to advance this issue? Do "vote up" numbers help? Do "followers" help?

https://www.drupal.org/node/2906336

Thanks,
Richard

WGBH is running a story on the redesign of boston.gov, with a focus on accessibility: http://news.wgbh.org/2016/07/26/local-news/new-bostongov-aims-accessibility-misses-few-marks. Listening to the teasers on the air, I was reminded of a presentation that Jesse Beach gave of using Drupal's menus with a screen reader.

The overall assessment is "pretty good" and definitely an improvement over the old site. The article mentions Drupal explicitly.

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They'll be presenting about a variety of Drupal 8 topics, including:

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Just wanted to blast it here as well that I made an accessibility toolkit module which provides a block to help provide ways of improving your site for different visual impairments; most resolving around dyslexia (like a font that makes it easier to read). We also store the setting in a cookie and in the future will do this on the serverside so it doesn't have to reload each time (as the screencast currently shows).

Support, feedback and improvement suggestions always welcome: https://drupal.psu.edu/blog/post/a11y-accessibility-toolkit-module

Greetings,

I am managing a Drupal 8 development project for a US government agency. Accessibility is an important concern to this agency.

We intend to use Bootstrap as our base theme. Recently, the Accessibility Plugin for Bootstrap 3 has come to my attention and I am wondering if Bootstrap theme users and contributors have integrated this plugin in their own sites, and what their experience has been.

I am using Adaptive theme to make many websites, and despite it being possible to create an alt field for all of my images I am unsure of what to do with a decorative image that should display the alt text of "".

If I leave the alt text field empty, the result is alt=

If I add "" to the alt text field, the result is alt=""""

Does anyone know of a good solution for this issue?