- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:20:52 +0200
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Hi Denis, all, At 16:24 6/07/2009, Denis Boudreau wrote: >Good morning Christophe, all, > >My team would be very interested in taking up that responsability. That's great! We now have several people who are interested in contributing (with different levels of time commitment). I don't know yet how this collaboration will work in practice but we should be able to find that out in the next few weeks. I have asked some practical questions in the comments at <http://plone.uservoice.com/pages/20503-plone-improvement-ideas/suggestions/230240-improve-accessibility-and-add-an-high-contrast-css>. (If the previous URL breaks, you can use this one: <http://tinyurl.com/lgujbd>.) Best regards, Christophe P.S. Accessibility is now second ranked in the list of improvement ideas! >We are a team of 8 accessibility experts from >Quebec, Canada using Plone on some of the >projects we develop for our clients. We have >been thinking of doing this for a while to >improve accessibility in Plone. We could do it >for the community instead of doing it only for ourselves. > >It would be a great opportunity to give back, as >Plone has given us tremedously in the past few years. > >Where do we sign up? :) > > >-- >Denis Boudreau, >Directeur général > >Coopérative AccessibilitéWeb >1751 rue Richardson, bureau 6.111 >Montréal (Qc), Canada H3K 1G6 > >Téléphone : +1 514.312.3378 >Sans frais : +1 877.315.5550 >Télécopieur : +1 514.667.2216 ><mailto:dboudreau@accessibiliteweb.com>dboudreau@accessibiliteweb.com >http://www.accessibiliteweb.com/ > > > > >On 6-Jul-09, at 4:42 AM, Christophe Strobbe wrote: > >> >>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>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>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/>http://www.standards-schmandards.com/2009/wai-aria-landmark-roles-in-cms-themes/>. -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442 B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ --- "Better products and services through end-user empowerment" http://www.usem-net.eu/ --- Please don't invite me to LinkedIn, Facebook, Quechup or other "social networks". You may have agreed to their "privacy policy", but I haven't.
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