My presentation from http://inclusivedesign24.org/ for Global Accessibility Awareness Day.

1. THE DRUPAL
ACCESSIBILITY
ADVANTAGE
It's About Starting with Core – May 15#ID24 Hour 12

2. OpenConcept Consulting Inc.
Facts and Figures:
President: Mike Gifford
Creation date: 1999
Switch to Drupal: 2006
Number of employees: 10
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Services
❏ Consulting
❏ Drupal Development
❏ Support and Maintenance

3. Rapidly Accelerating
Problems
◻ The Web continues to change rapidly
◻ Standards are in flux and will remain so
◻ Keeping up with devices and browsers
◻ User expectations are growing

4. Greater Diversity
◻ Greater accommodation for the human condition
◻ Support for the whole population
◻ Drive for personalized experience
◻ New legal implications

5. Drupal Core & Accessibility
◻ Central software libraries driving the Internet
◻ Commitment to developing to standards
◻ Best practices need to be codified
◻ Making accessibility issues release blockers
◻ An inclusive culture in the developer community

6. Fix Problems at the Source
■ Drupal CMS
■ jQuery UI
■ CKEditor
■ Firefox & Chrome
■ Assistive Technology

7. Central Solutions
◻ Drupal 7
⬜ CSS display:none;
⬜ Forms API
◻ Drupal 8
⬜ ARIA Live Announcements API
⬜ Controlled TabManager
⬜ Views

8. Add Proper Semantics
◻ Drupal 7
⬜ Headings applied to lists & blocks
⬜ Labels
◻ Drupal 8
⬜ WAI-ARIA landmarks, live regions, roles & properties
⬜ HTML5
⬜ Cleanup: Label, Fieldsets, Figure/figcaption

9. We are Mobile
◻ Drupal 8 is responsive out of the
box
◻ Apple’s iPhone/iPad includes
VoiceOver
◻ Android devices come with
TalkBack
◻ Growing number of accessibility
apps available
◻ Mobile devices support multiple
browsers

10. Accessibility Everywhere
◻ Anonymous Users
◻ Authenticated Users
◻ Content Editors
◻ Site Administrators
◻ Developers
◻ Drupal Community Sites

11. Drupal is Multilingual
◻ Early commitment to Internationalization
◻ More than one language at one time
◻ Centralized control of strings
◻ Patterns for Contributed Modules/Themes
◻ Language of Parts

12. Proudly Invented Elsewhere
◻ jQuery UI
⬜ Autocomplete
⬜ Modal Dialogs
◻ CKEditor
⬜ Pushing Accessibility
⬜ Drupal’s accessible administration
◻ HTML5 Boilerplate

13. Provide Good Examples
◻ Modules
⬜ Core modules
◻ Themes
⬜ Bartik & Seven
◻ Documentation
⬜ Inline
⬜ API
⬜ Handbooks
◻ Issue Queue
⬜ Provide external links

14. People with Disabilities
◻ Seek out people with
disabilities
◻ Drupal 7
⬜ OpenConcept Everett Zufelt
◻ Drupal 8
⬜ Crowd funding to bring Vincenzo
Rubano to DrupalCon
◻ Where possible integrate
with community

15. Automated Testing
◻ WAVE Toolbar
◻ Firefox/Chrome Extensions for Color Contrast
◻ QUAIL - http://quailjs.org

16. Feedback: Early & Often
◻ Encourage people to download early versions
⬜ https://drupal.org/project/drupal
◻ Provide simple means to test patches
⬜ http://simplytest.me/project/drupal/8.x
◻ Have a channel for discussion
⬜ https://drupal.org/irc/

17. 3% Of the Internet Matters
◻ The community is large
◻ We influence other open source projects
◻ We can have an effect on
⬜ Microsoft
⬜ Apple
⬜ Google
⬜ Freedom Scientific

18. In Conclusion...
◻ Start by addressing accessibility at the source
◻ Where possible centralize solutions
◻ Add meaning through semantics
◻ Accessibility is also mobile
◻ Be inclusive
◻ Collaborate with other software communities
◻ Engage people with disabilities & robots
◻ Seek feedback & give feedback
◻ Together we can make a difference!

19. For participating in GAAD 2014!
Thank you
@mgifford
@openconcept_ca
http://openconcept.ca