AIR Houston
Would anyone be interested in getting together a group for AIR Houston? For those unfamiliar, AIR is a one-day event where dev teams build a site for a non-profit in 8 hours and compete with other teams based on the accessibility of their site. I have participated in the past, and it is kind of fun.
I think they are still working on the site for this year's competition, but I thought I'd plant the seed now. The events probably won't start until September, so there is plenty of time to think about it
http://www.knowbility.org/air-houston/
Read moreproblems with CAPTCHA and audio CAPTCHA alternative
earlier today, i drafted what i considered a thoughtful, yet quick, reply to a comment upon the development of an accessibility statement for Drupal (http://groups.drupal.org/node/39134#comment-155813), but my comment was identified as possible spam, so i was required to take a CAPTCHA test in order to authenticate my comment, but when i attempted to use the audio captcha, the page refreshed, completely wiping out almost a half-an-hour's work which i had put into my response...
Read moreBrainstorming for an accessibility proposal
I think that it would be an excellent idea for there to be at least one accessibility based project proposed for GSOC. Clearly the benefit being that Drupal's accessibility is enhanced, and a student who may be interested in accessibility is given the opportunity to improve their skills through the mentorship of individuals who have experience in the field.
Read moreTools for Choosing Accessible Colors
At last night's Austin Drupal meetup, I promised to post the links to the tools I demonstrated for testing color schemes for sufficient contrast. I plan to share more about these in the Accessibility portion of Drupal documentation, but for now, here are the places to find the tools:
Read moreWeb Accessibility (W4A) Conference April 26-27, Raleigh, North Carolina
The Alliance for Technology Access & Drupal
Are any Drupal community members also members of The Alliance for Technology Access?
I'd like to contact people regarding disability issues,
web access, and activism for the disabled.
Thanks for your interest.
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The Alliance for Technology Access
http://ataccess.org/
Web Access
http://ataccess.org/rresources/webaccess.html
Some notes after an accessibility review on a site
In random order, rough, wrote as making changes. Most interesting is the aria-required and adding the h2's to status messages, etc.
If using beauty tips, beware of using non-100% opacity due to those with visibility issues.
Add h2's around messages and role alert.
<ul>
<li role="alert"><h2>
<span class="status-message-box status-status"> </span> Your password and further instructions have been sent to your e-mail address.
</h2></li>
</ul>
"Meta Accessibility" - How to Make Accessibility Features Known to the User
What if your site is perfectly accessible but no one knows about it?
This question came up while working on Accessibility improvements for vertical tabs , together with some first thoughts on this issue.
Read moreThe Accessible Content Module and the Accessible module
You all might remember an earlier post I made about the QUAIL accessibility library and its potential for checking content for accessibility. Well, now you can download the fruits of that labor!
There's a readme file in there that outlines how to download and setup the module. It comes packaged with the quail lib for now, but if it goes to drupal.org I'll remove it and require folks to download it from it's own site on code.google.com.
Read morejQuery Visualize Plugin: Accessible Charts & Graphs from Table Elements using HTML 5 Canvas
Visualize is a Views style plug-in for implementing the jQuery Visualize charting tool.
jQuery Visualize provides accessible charts providing textual information to non-visual users.
It uses a technique with JavaScript to scrape data from an HTML table and generate charts using the HTML 5 Canvas element.
Try out a demo: http://lakeandweb.com/visualize/
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