Accessibility

Hi everyone.

I'm a screen reader user and I'm using the Zen theme in the site I'm building.

I just want to know if you can give some advice on rearranging the sections of a site that uses Zen. I'm happy with Zen's accessibility, but I noticed that the contents are arranged this way (in the perspective of a screen reader user):

main content

navigation links (home, about us, contact us)

search

...I would like to have the following arrangement:

Navigation links

Search

Main Content

...Thanks.

Julius

At the Accessibility Sprint in Montreal today, I noted a certain degree of frustration with UI changes being committed before they've been reviewed for impacts on accessibility.

And then when I got home tonite I remembered that Randy Fay has started an initiative to provide some form of governance for Drupal (http://drupal.org/node/1526026). Unfortunately, the discussion so far has been mostly about conflict resolution which, to my mind at least, is actually somewhat peripheral to governance.

Hi I'm using the standard Bartik theme and have a skip to main content link on every page. Can someone please tell me how to add the skip to search link on every page like Drupal.org has?

Thanks

Call for Topics:

Please reply with suggested topics for our June Drupal Accessibility Skype Meeting. Since the call is 3 days before the Montreal Accessibility Sprint, should we use the call for people to talk about what they want to work on at the Sprint? Reply to suggest any topics.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012
4pm UTC / 11am CDT
on Skype (contact m.gifford or brandonbowersox on Skype to be added to the group if this is your first time joining)

Montreal's local Drupal Association is hosting a 3 day Accessibility code sprint running from 9-5 (and possibly later) on June June 15th, 16th and 17th. Everett Zufelt of and Mike Gifford will lead the sprint which will be held at the offices of Evolving Web, 114-300 rue du Saint-Sacrement, Montreal. Wheel chair access is via rue Le Moyne. Ten dollar Parking can be found nearby on rue University.

Weekend attendees will need to buzz 114 to get access to the building.

Global Accessibility Awareness Day is a community-driven effort whose goal is to focus one day to raise the profile of digital (web, software, mobile app/device, touch screen kiosk, etc.) accessibility and people with different disabilities.

The idea started with a single blog post. On May 9th, people in communities around the world are encouraged to hold a talk/meetup, organize hands-on demos, or plan another activity that brings attention to some aspect of digital accessibility. Follow @GblA11yDay on Twitter and use the #gaad hashtag in your own tweets.

Droplabs is happy to participate in this global event. We will have both Dallas Legan and Larry Hart on-hand to present:

• Dallas Legan is a well-respected member of the Southern California Open Source ecosystem. He has presented on a variety of topics at UUASC, LAMP-SIG, the San Fernando Valley Linux Users Group, the San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group and SCALE.
• Larry Hart is a longtime member of the San Fernando Valley Linux Users Group. He also happens to be a blind web user and will be imparting both his knowledge and frustrations of using a non-accessible web. We hope this will lead to discussions on how we, as web developers, can create a more usable and accessible web.

Call for Topics:

Please reply with suggested topics for our May Drupal Accessibility Skype Meeting.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012
4pm UTC / 11am CDT
on Skype (contact m.gifford or brandonbowersox on Skype to be added to the group if this is your first time joining)

Anyone interested in working on Accessibility using Drupal is invited.

Please respond with suggested topics

I am trying to figure out how to make a particular table accessible. On the y-axis are the names of professors. On the x-axis are the names of research interest areas. The body of the table is used to show which professors work in each area. Each professor can work in multiple areas. So, going along the row for a professor, there is a bullet in the column for each research area that they work in; the other cells are empty.

Hi all.

What is the best way to ensure that pages using quick tabs are accessible?

This is an example of a page using quick tabs:
http://www.health.govt.nz/yourhealth-topics/diseases-and-illnesses/heart...

As seen on the page, when you click on one of the links on the quick tab, "symptoms" for example, a new section of information about symptoms would appear. This event will hide the previous section.

I realize that it may be difficult for screen reader users to perceive at once the change that will take place when they click one of the links on the quick tab.

Hello everyone,

I wonder if anyone would like to partner with me to mentor GSoC projects that provide phone, SMS, and VoIP capabilities to Commerce, Open Atrium, Drupal Commons and/or CiviCRM.

Hello everyone,

Montreal's local Drupal Association is planning to run a 3 day Accessibility code sprint in June. Everett Zufelt of and Mike Gifford have both expressed an interest in helping to lead the sprint. (削除) We're currently looking at June 15-17 as our dates. A facility has not yet been booked, but Montreal's Notman House has been suggested. It was used successfully for our i18n sprint back in September. (削除ここまで) We're holding the sprint from June 15th to 17th at the offices of Evolving Web, 114-300 rue du Saint-Sacrement
Monteal.

As requested at the Wednesday BoF on accessibility, please post any and all tools that you know of that can help with accessibility inside of Drupal and for general design.

There's an issue on drupal.org to fix some accessibility problems with the BUEditor (the BUeditor adds a toolbar to node/comment editing forms that you can use to put HTML tags in).

I've given the fix a preliminary review, but I'm not an accessibilty expert. So, a review by an accessibility expert would be very helpful, and until it's reviewed, it won't be deployed on Drupal.org (most likely).

For those attending DrupalCon Denver next week, there will be at least two accessibility-related BoF sessions:

• Acccessibility - Wednesday at 5pm
• Designing for Accessibility - Wednesday at 1pm

Hey, folks! :)

Back in Drupal 7, we used the Community Initiaitves section to outline what folks were working on in D8. There's a page for the accessibility team's priorities at http://drupal.org/node/364629 but it seems that that's almost solely D7-related issues that are already fixed (yay!)

Is there any way you would be able to update this text before DrupalCon? It'd be great to have one URL I can point people to who want to help with your stuff.

Is anyone using the http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-speech/? And are there ways Drupal 8 should use this to improve screenreader accessibility?

Here are some examples of this proposed CSS3 Speech syntax:

Are there places in Drupal's admin area or in Drupal sites where we should be using this? Or are most screenreaders smart enough to read a zip code or phone number as digits anyway?

Call for Topics:

Please reply with suggested topics for our March Drupal Accessibility Skype Meeting.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012
4pm UTC / 11am CDT
on Skype (contact m.gifford or brandonbowersox on Skype to be added to the group if this is your first time joining)

Note: Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. starts Sunday 3/11, so this event is now at 4pm UTC.

Anyone interested in working on Accessibility using Drupal is invited.

Please respond with suggested topics

Has anyone seen a good implementation of Superfish or Mega Menu that lets the user tab through top level links, but use directional arrows to move back and forth in submenus?

I'd like feedback on a proposal for how Form Errors work in Drupal 8 core:

http://groups.drupal.org/node/209513

I've created that Wiki page with proposed screenshots in response to the lengthy discussion in issue #447816 about how Drupal core FAPI indicates form validation errors using color.

Hello all,

I trust it is in order to post this question here. If not, please accept my apologies and feel free to direct me to a more appropriate group/forum.

I am assisting in the design of a site for the Visually Impaired Computer Society based in Ireland. One of the requirements is that the site design cater for those with residual vision; namely those who are visually impaired. My question is a simple one. Is there a module, or suite of modules available for Drupal 7.x which will:

1. enable us to change the styles on the site;
2. enable us to change colour contrasts;