accessibility

Hello!

I'm crowdsourcing a question from a colleague: Do any accessibility pros have opinions on the use and accessibility of sticky menus, particularly with regard to mobile? Any good articles or opinion pieces I can send this person?

Thanks!

---Jess

I'm trying to develop a presentation about accessibility and Drupal. The idea, posed to me by Mike Gifford (mgifford), is that it should be a basic presentation that many different people could give give at various conferences—Web camps, Drupal camps, geekouts, whatever.

Drupal 7 still remains the most accessible open source CMS available. The changes that the community began implementing in 2008 to improve accessibility for the entire user interface (public, content editor, administrator and developer) has still not been matched by any other piece of web software (open source or proprietary). By focusing accessibility efforts on improving Core, we are able to fix accessibility problems by default regardless of what themes, or extensions are used in any given implementation.

Drupal 8 Content Experience: Accessibility Findings

Goal

To conduct accessibility evaluation of Drupal 8 focussed on the content authoring experience (create content and edit content)

Methodology

The study was conducted in July 2013 in two phases:
Phase 1: Evaluation with volunteer Drupal users with accessibility needs. The participants were given the testing script with scenario and were asked to report their feedback
Phase 2: Conduct 3-participant moderated usability study consistent with the testing script (mentioned above).

I was using Omega at work, now I have to start a new project and I would like to start using Omega 4.
The problem is that here, in Italy, laws on accessibiliy forbid the use of html5, I've to use XHTML.

The question is: is there a way to "transform" omega html5 to xhtml? Simply editing tpls is not enough.

My boss is delivering this webinar, and since I am not a huge fan of shameless seIf plugs, I wouldn't have posted it if it wasn't a free webinar, so any and all are welcome to join!

• Learn the components of web accessibility and how are they related and managed by the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative.
• Go beyond the Guidelines – WCAG, UAAG, ATAG, and ARIA – to the supporting documents and tutorials that are freely available.
• Learn about how WAI-Engage and other community resources can support your expanding web accessibility knowledge and skills.

Registration is now open for DrupalCamp Twin Cities, July 18-21st, held at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, MN. http://2013.tcdrupal.org

We're very excited about this year's DrupalCamp. We have a record number of sessions submissions, some really excellent keynote speakers, and the best DrupalCamp parties in the country. Before camp the University of MN is hosting a weeklong Accessibility testing of Drupal 8 and we have Accessibility, Twig, Media and Core sprints happening after the camp.

With the media module, image fields in D7 require the following changes to generate alt tags, which should be the default:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10915200/drupal-alt-tags-on-images
http://webwash.net/tutorials/customize-media-module-image-display-drupal-7
Please check - I hope that I am wrong: I have been waiting for them to fix it since am using the "Open Outreach" distribution http://drupal.org/project/openoutreach & bypassing the problem until fixed.
I tested both the 2.0-unstable and dev versions:

If you work with a government organization who has ever used an automated “508 testing” tool online, you know the pain: a screen full of alerts and the dreaded words: “200+ violations.” What do you do with that information? Is it code to fix or content to fix? Who can fix it? I wouldn’t know either, and accessibility is my full-time job.

There's going to be a Drupal4Gov event in DC on February 21st.

Keynoting the event will be our virtual keynotes from Ottawa to discuss their work on the Web Experience Toolkit

Tickets on eventbrite

We'll be at NIH starting at 12:30 on Thursday, February 21st,/a>!

Oh, yeah, and there's even more!