accessibility

Well, there are labels for pages like the permission page - /admin/user/permissions

I was looking over this critique from Juice Studio about Drupal's Accessibility.

And labels are there, but it's all code, so really not sure how useful it is. We'd probably want each box to be populated by a label with the role instead of the number of the role & so that a screen reader could properly explain what a particular checkbox is about:

Hello all. I am a new face around here, with a background in accessibility compliance and testing. I thought I would pitch in to help make Drupal as accessible as possible.

I am starting by looking at the Accessibility Guidelines for Drupal 7: WCAG 2.0 & ATAG 1.0, but if anyone knows of an area with a more critical need for attention, please let me know.

Under the section "1.4.1 Use of Color (Level A)", there is an item with the following:

Color is not used as the sole method of conveying content or distinguishing visual elements. - Red * for mandatory fields

Me and quicksketch are discussing some accessibility enhancements to Imagefield over at http://drupal.org/node/193887 (ALT text optionally required unless the user checks off a "decorative" checkbox, longdesc support, limiting ALT text to 80 characters). It would be great to get some input from you guys.

From The American Foundation of the Blind (AFB):

• A Review of the Accessibility of Facebook
• Survey on Social Networking Sites

At the documentation sprint at DrupalCon D.C. , we began the Accessibility documentation pages. They are currently at: http://drupal.org/node/394094

There are a number of ways people can help with this documentation:

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Getting Drupal to emit screen-reader friendly dates is a pain in the butt. It can, however, be done. Here's a detailed account of my efforts on that score, complete with tests in two screen readers (including MP3s for your listening pleasure), some analysis, and a detailed walk through of customizing the code for a DATE element.

I made two small patches to D7 to improve the accessibility of the search form:

http://drupal.org/node/356359
http://drupal.org/node/368759

It's another small change for accessibility. I think this will help, but would appreciate feedback on these changes. Certainly it improves things with my tests using:

http://wave.webaim.org/

Mike

WebAIM has just published the initial results of its January 2009 survey of people who use screen readers and other forms of assistive technology (AT). Find the WebAIM survey's initial results here.

I have barely looked at this information, but a few points do jump out at me:

I would really like to understand this issue better - http://drupal.org/node/58941

As Webchick says "If 1/50th of the people complaining that this isn't fixed yet actually put some energy into reading the copious documentation cross-linked here and creating said patch, this probably would've made it into Drupal 4.7."

So, I'd like some other opinions about the difference between:

Getting a Drupal 6 Site up to FAE Standards

FAE

This is a short talk I gave the other day. I'm looking for feedabck. code is at:

http://staff.ed.uiuc.edu/jbarclay/accessible/accessible.zip

and

http://staff.ed.uiuc.edu/jbarclay/accessible/fck_accessibility_tweaks.zip