Fixing Accessibility Problems
at the Source
Mike Gifford - OpenConcept.ca
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Introduction
Mike Gifford, President
OpenConcept Consulting Inc.
Drupal Core Accessibility Maintainer
@mgifford
http://openconcept.ca
#a11yopen
Scaling
Matters!
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Traditional Approaches
Assistive Technology
Standards & Legislation
Individual Sites
Educational Efforts
Increasingly:
Automated Tests, Themes & Plugins
The Modern Web Is Built with Central Libraries!
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Software Like:
Content Management Systems
WordPress
(48%) -
Drupal
(13%)
Design Frameworks
HTML5 Boilerplate
(57%) -
Bootstrap
(31%)
Javascript
jQuery
(20%) -
Modernizr
(5%)
Multimedia
JW Player
(16%) -
MediaElement.js
(4%)
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Four Freedoms
Use for any purpose
Modify it as you wish
Share with others
Contribute back
Free As In Kittens !
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Collaboration
- bug reports
- feature requests
- documentation
- design
- UX
- editing
- testing
- finances
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and much more.
Drupal
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What's Different
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Perceivable & Operable on front & back-end
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Goal of WCAG 2.0 AA
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Proudly Built Elsewhere
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Accessibility integrated into culture
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Open governance process (meritocracy)
How
IS
IT
Accessible?
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What We've Done
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Involved programmers with disabilities
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Reached out to browsers & AT vendors
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Used automated testing tools
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Contacted subject experts about problems
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Have an open/transparent issue queue
- Make accessibility part of the whole development cycle
Accessible
Defaults
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The right attitude
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Establish a precedent
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Foster personal agency, I can fix this!
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Supportive, inclusive community
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Be vigilant, nothing will 100% accessible
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Don't settle for the status quo
Why Open Source
Matters for
Accessibility
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Open Source & Accessibility
Rate of change on the Internet
Need for regular testing
Problems too big to solve alone
Engage disabled people in solution
Viable Solution
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Mike Gifford
http://openconcept.ca
@mgifford
Fixing Accessibility Problems At The Source
By Mike Gifford
Fixing Accessibility Problems At The Source
A review of why Drupal's accessibility enhancements matter and how we got there.
