Usability

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Charles Belov's picture

Inconsistent drop-menu activation

Is there a standard for keyboard activation of drop-down menus? We are using multiple drop-down menus from various sources which behave differently from one another. Technically speaking, each individual jump menu is WCAG 2.0 AA accessible because it can be navigated keyboard-only, but the technique for opening the menu varies from menu to menu.

I can't imagine that to be a pleasant experience for site visitors, but I also can't seem to find documentation from an authoritative source for a standard menu-open behavior that could (theoretically) be applied across all drop-down menus.

Is there a standard? Where is it documented? If there is no standard, is there a way to force a single behavior across incompatible drop-downs or else enable forgiving actions? If not, is there a reasonable way, e.g., through appropriate ARIA labeling, to communicate the correct way to access a particular drop-down menu without forcing the site visitor to figure it out for themselves?

I despair of keyboard-only visitors being able to achieve mastery of drop-down menus on websites.

Details follow:

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afagioli's picture

Simplenews - Protect button from wrong click.

Simplenews "Send" button can be easily activated without confirm, sending wrong newsletter by mistake.

I'm proposing to implement some kind of protection.

More feedback is welcome at
https://www.drupal.org/project/simplenews/issues/3162672

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mlncn's picture

Providing an explicit "This image is decorative and provides no information not already in the text" checkbox to blank out alt text

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).

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AmandeepKaur's picture

Drupal Virtual Contribution Hour

Start: 
2019-08-22 11:30 - 13:30 UTC
Event type: 
User group meeting

Continuing from where we left, you are welcome to join on 22nd August for Virtual Drupal contribution Hour.

Every month it's great to make some progress in our journey to contribute back to our Drupal community.

Our aim is to make Drupal developers aware of the contribution benefit, how can they enhance their professional and personal skills.

Our focus is to introduce how to commit the first patch to Drupal.org for the people who have introduced to Drupal already. If you are associated with Drupal, now it is your time to pay back the community. Be a Drupal Contributor !!

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AmandeepKaur's picture

Drupal Contribution Hour (Online Event)

Start: 
2019-07-18 10:30 - 12:30 UTC
Event type: 
User group meeting

Continuing from where we left, you are welcome to join on 18th July for Drupal contribution.

Our focus: Introduce how to commit the first patch to Drupal.org for the people who have introduced to Drupal already. If you are associated with Drupal, now it is your time to pay back the community. Be a Drupal Contributor !!

Our aim is to make Drupal developers aware of the contribution benefit, how can they enhance their professional and personal skills. This could be just a small start but would like to see a few of us take a leadership position within the community.

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AmandeepKaur's picture

Managing Drupal projects in enterprise

Start: 
2019-06-27 11:00 - 13:00 America/Los_Angeles
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

The project manager plays an important role in ensuring all the team members work on their assigned activities in the appropriate order. Although, before that, they must have a basic knowledge of technology. It helps you to manage projects more successfully. The project manager ensures to manage the project well by meeting the expectations of any event requirement. Understand the creative brief from the client teams, provide clarity on briefs, and lineup all the requirements for the event.

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AmandeepKaur's picture

Valuebound Drupal Contrib Hour (Online Event)

Start: 
2019-06-29 10:00 - 14:00 UTC
Event type: 
User group meeting

Continuing from where we left, you are welcome to join on 29th June for Drupal contribution.

Iterating again, everyone can contribute in every possible way in Drupal. Drupal needs more people to contribute to the community. To continue the growth momentum, as a community we need to work towards building a bigger talent pool of good Drupal developers.

This would be a 4-hour online-only event that will help new contributors get up to speed on giving back to the Drupal project.

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AmandeepKaur's picture

Valuebound Drupal Contrib Hour (Online Event)

Start: 
2019-06-22 10:00 - 14:00 UTC
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

Continuing from where we left, you are welcome to join on 22nd June for Drupal contribution.

Iterating again, everyone can contribute in every possible way in Drupal. Drupal needs more people to contribute to the community. To continue the growth momentum, as a community we need to work towards building a bigger talent pool of good Drupal developers.

This would be a 4-hour online-only event that will help new contributors get up to speed on giving back to the Drupal project.

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AmandeepKaur's picture

Drupal Virtual Contribution Day

Start: 
2019-05-25 10:30 - 14:30 UTC
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

Everyone can contribute in every possible way on open source Drupal. Drupal needs more people to contribute from under-represented and marginalized groups within the Drupal Community.

In continuation of the same goal, we at Valuebound organizing Virtual Contribution Day. This would be a 4-hour online-only event that will help new contributors get up to speed on giving back to the Drupal project.

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AmandeepKaur's picture

Drupal and Artificial Intelligence for personalization (Bangalore)

Start: 
2019-05-18 09:30 - 11:30 Asia/Kolkata
Organizers: 
Event type: 
Related event (ie. not Drupal specific)

Drupal is a leading open-source platform, mainly focused on building a customer-facing front-end presence on the internet and the integration of the front-end with enterprises back-end operation whereas Artificial Intelligence has the potential to personalize the user experience.

The combination of these two can provide the interactive ecosystem by handling your potential customers interacting with them, studying their behavior and get the maximum ROI.

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anydigital's picture

Bricks Sprint Amersfoort 2018

Start: 
2018-03-19 17:00 - 22:00 Europe/Amsterdam
Organizers: 
Event type: 
Sprint

If you are using Paragraphs and/or Layout Builder in your daily work -- this could be really interesting for you/your Team!

We will work on new Bricks features, allowing to user them together and natively with Paragraphs and Layout API/Builder.

List of tasks: https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/search?issue_tags=Bricks%20Sprint%....

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jbdrupal's picture

Forum Module D8 Do we really need a new module Forum-Access to do what permissions should do for FORUM

Forum Module D8 Do we really need a new module, Forum-Access, to do what permissions should do for FORUM. If I wanted to stop anonymous unauthenticated users from seeing forum posts shouldn't I be able to easily turn that off for anonymous users via permissions or contrariwise, default inability to see until the role 'anonymous user' has been given the permission. I cannot find a Forum Module to see where to point this discussion so I thought it might be a good topic here.... Also put it in chat...

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Susan MacPhee's picture

Call for Sessions: Design 4 Drupal, Boston 23-25 JUNE 2017 at MIT

Open for Sessions Submit your talk here.

https://www.design4drupal.org

Design 4 Drupal, Boston is an annual web design event covering all aspects of design, UX, & theming for Drupal websites.

Back at MIT this year! MIT Stata Center at in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA.

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angiec's picture

What to do on page

I'm redesigning a site that is currently in WordPress to Drupal 8.

I'm not sure what to do with this page though. What's the best way to structure this in Drupal?

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anydigital's picture

Bricks 8.x-1.3 just released!

Bricks 8.x-1.3 just released!

Draggable Entity tree, Inline Entity Form, Revisions and Paragraphs support!

Bootstrap 4 (!) support as a separate module!

https://www.drupal.org/project/bricks

https://uibricks.com

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Mobile CMS screenshots of Joomla CMS (Joooid) on HTC One M7

Feedback:

  • It is not easy to find any mobile integration for self hosted applications.

  • Consistent and stable

  • Straight forward.

  • In some cases the program stopped working.

  • The learning curve is larger as compared to other open source platforms.

-- Drupal can be improved by making its tabs better and also work on the drop down list.
-- Compared to Joomla, Drupal is much easier to use and to learn.

Below are the screenshots attached of the Joomla CMS for Mobile User Interface.

(1) Log in

(2) Available services

(3) Articles

(4) New Article

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Mobile CMS screenshots of Wordpress on HTC One M7

Feedback:

  • Simple to use

  • Wordpress allows us to make the UI more appealind since we can customize the themes.

  • Wordpress has a wide variety of themes which makes wordpress' UI more appealing.

  • It is an amazing content management system.

-- Drupal must work on its themes as this will make it its user interface more appealing.

Below are screenchots of Wordpress on HTC One M7.
1- Log in
2- Available services
3- Themes
4- Customize theme
5- Discover

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Mobile CMS screenshots of ProcessWire on HTC One M7

Feedback:

  • Using ProcessWire on a phone makes it UI look dull.

  • Easy to Use.

  • No proper alignment when using a phone.

  • Looks messy.

-- Drupal is really better than processwire concerning CMS since it is well spaced and offers a cleaner interface.
-- Drupal is more stable and reliable.

Below are the screenshots attached of ProcessWire for Mobile User Interface.
(1) ProcessWire front page
(2) Modules
(3-4) Docs
(5) Blog
(6) Forums

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Mobile CMS screenshots of Wordpress on XOLO Era 1x.

Feedback

  • The User Interface of Wordpress is the best among other CMS.

  • Easy to use.

  • Wordpress has a wide variety of themes which makes wordpress' UI more appealing.

  • Moreover Wordpress has some new features like Recent Blogs, pop-up description to give brief information of each section.

-- Themes are the only thing on which Drupal could work which will make its user interface better.

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Mobile CMS screenshots of Textpattern on XOLO Era 1x.

  • Below are the screenshots attached of the Textpattern CMS for Mobile User Interface.
  1. Login

  2. Edit Article

  3. Menu Links

  4. Edit Styles

  5. Front Page of Website

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