Accessibility
These issues are important both for end users (for example, site visitors who use screen readers) and for people building Drupal sites that have to meet the accessibility requirements set by governments and other organizations. If you can help with any of these issues, please pitch in. If you want to look at non-core issues, there is a list of contributed modules and their accessibility issues too.
Relevant tag: accessibility
For more general discussions about Drupal accessibility, see the Accessibility Group and related Documentation.
Critical Issues
These issues are critical and must be fixed prior to the release of D7.
- #567192: Expanding simpletest groups not accessible via keyboard
- #448292: Drag and Drop for table rows is not accessible to screen-reader users
Critical Enhancements (not technically critical issues)
These issues are critical to the accessibility of D7, but will not prevent D7 from being released if they are not fixed.
- #558928: Form element labeling is inconsistent, inflexible and bad for accessibility
- #467296: Accessibility improvements for vertical tabs
Headings and Structural Enhancements
- #169912: Garland: Use appropriate header-tags following the W3C
- #514008: Heading tags not available in default Filtered HTML text format: required for compliance with ATAG 2.0
- #113853: Garland accessibility: HTML order for screenreader optimisation
Purpose and Context Enhancements
- #513940: Installation task progress is not determinable non-visually need some help with preinstallation translation function st()
- #521852: Local tasks lack semantic markup to indicate an active task
- #545196: Include more contextual information in page title
- #541612: Sortable table header links lack accessible purpose and context
Colors and Contrast
ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Application) Enhancements
- #515262: Autocomplete requires ARIA for screen-reader users - is currently not functional for screen-reader users
- #513946: Enhance installation progress by adding an ARIA live region
- #521904: Add ARIA live region to password strength and match containers
Form Enhancements
All of these issues have been postponed as they will all be resolved by #467296: Accessibility improvements for vertical tabs if it is fixed.
- #522772: Improve radio and checkbox title and labeling features for accessibility
- #504962: Use fieldset and legend for date field
- #501444: Administer > Modules pages make improper use of form labels
- #405360: Form element description text is in the wrong place
- #368759: All labels should require a for attributepointing to a unique id