Accessibility / I'm missing something like an "Acronym Manager"
Hi,
I'm missing (or have overseen) something like an "Acronym Manager".
What it is?
If you want to make a website accessible you have to include tags and explanations for different abbreviations or acronyms.
This can probably lead to a big amount of work and become very boring if you have to repeat this task for some common abbreviations and acronyms again and again.
I know that something like this exists for other CMS-systems(for example typo3 [ http://news.typo3.org/news/article/acronymmanager/ ]).
If I haven't overseen that there is a filter/extension or module which can provide this functionallity I would be interested to know how to start to write such kind of extension for Drupal. Is there a similar module/filter which can serve as an example on how to start?
Peter
Glossary
You may want to use Glossary or G2 Glossary. I've not tried them myself so they may not be exactly what you need, but probably close?
Glossary
The Glossary module does this. It is a content filter that will analyze content and insert either a subscript (user-selectable), an icon, or an acronym tag. These indicators include a tool-tip on hover or takes the end-user to the Glossary definition on a click. Currently it uses a vocabulary to hold these definitions, although we are looking at switching to a node-based definition list.
Nancy W.
Drupal Cookbook (for New Drupallers)
Adding Hidden Design or How To notes in your database
Does not work like expected...
Although this is a very nice module, it does not work like expected. On the bottom of the page I get a list of used glossary-terms (in this way it works like the taxonomy-module). But nothing else...
I don't see either an icon nor an acronym-tag.
I think I have to invent something like an acronym/abbreviation-module myself. But how to start ? I'm a newbie concerning Drupal.
Any ideas what I should read at first to start programming something like this?
My first idea:
I need a database-table with a few columns (term, [acronym or abbreviation], language, long form).
I need a way to edit this database-table in a user-friendly way.
Every time when the user edits a page, story etc. he can decide whether he wants to use this module.
When he uses this module, every term inside of this page, story or book will be replaced with either <acronym> or <abbreviation> including this term.
The first time when this term appears on the page the acronym- or abbreviation-tag gets a title-attribute with the description of the term.
If the language of the term is different from the language of the current page, the tag additionally gets a lang- and a xml:lang-attribute of the specified language.
Thats all...
Peter
Have you enabled the filter
Have you enabled the filter for inserting the tags? Read the documentation? :)
Try reading this
http://drupal.org/node/69583
I think the Glossary module does just about everything you're asking for, except maybe the different-language part. If not, feel free to open a feature request.
Nancy W.
Drupal Cookbook (for New Drupallers)
Adding Hidden Design or How To notes in your database
Hello homo_sapiens
Hello homo_sapiens ....
Obviously it has been a long time since you posted this, but I just worked up a simple ABBRfilter module, since it seems that Glossary might do "too much" in many situations and we wanted a lightweight solution. I guess I can't attach files here, but I can provide a zip if you're interested (and working on adding as a project @ drupal.org).
Although it doesn't currently have the language support, the module I based it on did, and I could probably easily graft that back in. I wonder if anyone else wants ABBR action without going to glossary or other bigger modules.
Hmm...
Gosh, I hope not... ;)
Why not get a CVS account and submit it as a contributed module.
NancyDru
already applying for CVS. I
already applying for CVS.
I replied here more because it came up very near the top of the google search results when I was looking, not because I expected the OP still needed a module.
project page for
project page for abbreviations filter is now up!
http://drupal.org/project/abbrfilter