Re: Plone CMS improvement ideas: please support accessibility

would be a lot easier to vote if the *#@% were accessible and WAI
compliant.  requires javascript to vote.   can read it fine, just
can't vote

Bob



On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Christophe Strobbe wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Plone CMS has a voting page for improvement ideas at
> <http://plone.uservoice.com/pages/20503-plone-improvement-ideas>.
>
> Accessibility is at rank 13, far behind, for example, SVG support and
> calendar improvements.
>
> Some extra "encouragement" to improve accessibility looks like a good
> idea. There are only 9 votes left!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Christophe Strobbe
>
>
> P.S. Ticket 9298 at <https://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/9298>
> requests implementation of WAI-ARIA landmarks. (You need a login to
> see the ticket.) The suggestion came from Peter Krantz:
> <http://www.standards-schmandards.com/2009/wai-aria-landmark-roles-in-cms-themes/>.
>
>
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