Re: Plone CMS improvement ideas: please support accessibility

At 18:25 2/07/2009, Christophe Strobbe wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Plone CMS has a voting page for improvement ideas at
><http://plone.uservoice.com/pages/20503-plone-improvement-ideas>.

Accessibility has moved up quite a bit in the ranking :-)
But it appears that Plone is looking for a new volunteer to own the 
accessibility parts of Plone.
Alexander Limi (one of the developers who started Plone in 1999) 
explains that this would mean:

<quote>

- Testing for accessibility problems in (preferrably before it is 
released :) for every release

- Filing bugs when you find a particular accessibility problem, 
preferrably with code examples on how to change the markup, so even 
people that don't know much about accessibility can fix it

- Organize real-world sessions where Plone is tested with screen 
readers, so people can point out the issues when they find them. 
(This is aspirational, but would be very effective, I think)

You don't really need to be a programmer, but basic knowledge on HTML 
and CSS is of course useful to write good bug reports.

</quote>


Any takers?

Best regards,

Christophe



>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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Received on Monday, 6 July 2009 08:43:19 UTC