Documentation: Meta-Issue: Accessibility

[Natkeeran]

This is a meta issue to track other issues related to accessibility. Enabling Islandora to be used by all is a major goal of the project and part of Islandora 8 Roadmap priorities. In addition, most jurisdictions in Canada, US and EU mandate that web applications meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 AA standards or equivalent standards.

While Drupal 8 provides good base accessibility support, additional modules and features provided by Islandora 8 need to support accessibility as well.

• understanding the needs, standards and issues related to web accessibility
• evaluating and testing for accessibility in Islandora 8
• incorporating accessibility needs and concerns in the design, development and testing workflow

[kayakr]

It would be good to be able to automatically propagate the alt text on Original File to Service File and Thumbnail derivatives.

[Natkeeran]

@dannylamb
WAVE Web Accessibility Tool - WebAIM is a good tool to evaluate accessibility. It has a FF and Chrome plugin as well as a web UI: http://wave.webaim.org/report#/future.islandora.ca.

Another good tool is ChromeVox to highlight tab ordering. Although it is a screen reader, it is more useful to test tab ordering.

[mjordan]

Came across this post in my news feed today, I thought I'd drop it here since it looks like it has a lot of good, practical info: https://evolvingweb.ca/blog/how-test-your-drupal-sites-accessibility .