Talking Drupal Newsletter #350

Episode #350 - Accessibility Scanning & Testing

Today we are talking about Accessibility Scanning & Testing with Mike Gifford & Daniel Mundra.

www.talkingDrupal.com/350

Topics

• Accessibility Scanning and Testing

• Goals

• Popular tools

• Drupal tools

• Storybook

• VPAT

• OpenACR

• How it replaces VPAT

• OpenACR and Drupal

• Tackling Accessibility

• Tools to use

• Automation

• CI/CD

• Issues that will not be caught

Resources

• OpenACR

  • https://github.com/GSA/openacr

  • https://gsa.github.io/openacr-editor/

• Accessibility Scanner

• Editoria11y

• Pa11y + Axe

• Cypress-axe

• Open source & accessibility (including list of open source tools)

• Site improve

• Purple hats

• WCAG-EM

• Fable tech labs

• Least accessible site

• Spoke truing tool

• GAAD Pledge

Guests

Mike Gifford - mgifford.medium.com @mgifford
Daniel Mundra - danielmundra.com

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Mike Herchel - herchel.com - @mikeherchel

Module of the Week

Editoria11y
Editoria11y (“editorial accessibility”) is a user-friendly checker that addresses three critical needs for content authors

1. It runs automatically. Modern spellcheck works so well because it is always running; put spellcheck behind a button and few users remember to run it!

2. It runs in context. Views, Layout Builder, Media and all the other modules Drupal uses to assemble a complex page means checkers that run on individual fields cannot “see” errors that appear on render.

3. It focuses exclusively on content issues: things page editors can easily understand and easily fix. Editoria11y is meant to supplement, not replace, testing with comprehensive tools and real assistive devices.

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Upcoming Episodes

#352 D7 to D9 Migration with Mauricio Dinarte. Recording on June 14.
#353 Web Components with Ron Northcutt. Recording on June 21.
#354 OpenSource.com with AmyJune Hineline. Recording on June 28.
#355 Donna Bungard Topic of Choice. Recording on July 5.

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Chad’s Book Corner

Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler

Communication can make a difference in your success. It is strategically important to know when and how to communicate, especially when so much is at stake. This book will help you recognize triggers for “crucial conversations” and how to effectively communicate with others.

by Chad Hester @chadkhester www.chadkhester.com

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