Talking Drupal #316 - Accessibility

Today we are talking about Accessibility with Rain Breaw Michaels.

TalkingDrupal.com/316

Topics

• We are talking about Accessibility today, but specifically gearing the conversation towards developers. Why?
• So many people when coding for accessibility simply provide workarounds. Why can this be dangerous?
• What is ARIA?
• What is meant by the term Landmarks?
• How does this apply to dev’s working with Drupal?
• What modules do you recommend?
• How can you help content editors maintain accessibility while adding content?
• What are common pitfalls you see devs make
• How can Javascript help or hurt Accessibility?
• In closing, is there anything you would like to add?

Module of the Week

Anti Spam by CleanTalk

Resources

Clean Talk - Geerling’s Post Anti-spam by Clean Talk Acquia Engage Time Timer Driven to Distraction Design of everyday things (Book) ColorCube - Color Testing Tool ARIA WAI-ARIA HTML 5 Landmarks Module for decorative images Editoria11y Layout Builder Content Strategy for the Web PDF Accessibility course on Deque VPAT Hanlon’s Razor: “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”

Guest

Rain Breaw Michaels - @rainbreaw

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Chad Hester - www.chadkhester.com @chadkhester