Accessibility and Drupal

Submitted by Everett Zufelt on Tue, 2011-10-11 22:02
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Day: 
Saturday
Time Slot: 
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Room: 
Room 126
Session Track: 
Drupal for Beginners
Difficulty: 
Intermediate

Ensuring that all visitors who come to a site are able to perceive the content, understand and operate the user interface, and do so robustly is essential to a professional development practice.

Much effort was exerted during the Drupal 7 development cycle to ensure that Drupal is an incredibly accessible CMS out-of-the-box. Our community stepped up and did a great job at meeting this goal.

In this session you will learn:

  1. What web content "accessibility" means.
  2. How users with different types of disabilities interact with web sites.
  3. What laws, regulations, and guidelines exist that address web content accessibility.
  4. What features are in Drupal 7 to improve web content accessibility.
  5. What is being done to improve the accessibility of Drupal 8.

About the presenter:
Everett Zufelt is a freelance web developer and accessibility consultant, he is the Drupal Core Accessibility Maintainer, and an Invited Expert to the HTML Working Group at the W3C.