Accessibility and Section 508 compliance
Hi,
My name is Tom Babinszki. I've been toying with the idea to use Drupal for my web site for years. One of the must have criteria for me is full Section 508 compliance. I run an accessibility consulting company. For the most part I'm very happy with the Drupal accessibility features, but I was not able to figure out how to implement a skip navigation link. I definitely need a visible solution, not a hidden link.
I found some explanation which requires serious modification of Drupal files. I prefer not to use this solution, because I would have to reimplement it at every single upgrade.
Also, I think it would anyway be a great idea, I know several people who are held back only based on this criteria.
Any suggestion is appreciated.
Thank you for your help:
Tom
Theming
You can do this in the theming.
I haven't noticed any ready-made theme with a visible "Skip navigation" link, but Zen has an invisible one (see this demo, in the upper right corner), and it's only a matter of changing a CSS file to make it visible. I see the theme Flexible also mentions accessibility, and might be interesting to look at.
Another question concerning accessibility
Hi,
short question: if you are busy with questions concerning acssessibility, how did you solve the problem of tagging all abbreviations and acronyms with their long form, for example "<abbr title="United States">US</abbr>", without having to enter this again and again if it appears several times in yout text?
P.R.