Accessible Helper Module

johnbarclay - January 27, 2009 - 20:46

Goals:

Make Drupal content more accessible by hooking into released modules.
Demonstrate modifications to existing themes to make them accessible.
Serve as a demonstration to promote accessibility improvements to Drupal core and contributed modules. We realize accessibility should be integrated into core and all contributed modules, but understand the need for short term fixes also.

We are using the Functional Accessibility Evaluator and WAVE for evaluating accessibility.

We are working toward the following standards and best practices. We hope to avoid discussions about best practices and focus on their implementation.

Discussion on this module takes place in http://groups.drupal.org/accessibility and the issue queue linked to below. Initial discussion started at http://groups.drupal.org/node/18461 .

We welcome co-maintainers, and think the following would keep the workload reasonable:

Two or more coders. One of whom has maintained a module before to act as a mentor.
Some accessibility experts.
A handful of people who were willing to test.
A documentation person or two.