[Athen] Seeking Drupal Accessibility Testers

[Jennifer Sutton]

Greetings, Athenites:

I'm very pleased to see this effort to continue to improve 
accessibility in "DrupalLand," along with the specific upcoming focus 
in the Twin Cities area.

Thanks in advance to all of those who participate and contribute, 
whether from there or afar.

In case some may find it helpful, I thought I'd provide a link to 
some resources that Laura Carlson's collected on Drupal; many relate 
to accessibility. Start here:

Web Design References Drupal
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/drupal.html

Best,
Jennifer

At 08:52 AM 6/24/2013, you wrote:

>Hi All,

>

>If your institution is like mine, you're probably seeing more and 

>more of your web developers building their sites using Drupal. 

>Therefore it behooves us to ensure Drupal is accessible, and that it 

>produces fully accessible content.

>

>The Drupal community has expressed a sincere commitment to 

>accessibility, but they need help getting there. They're currently 

>working on development of the next version (Drupal 8) and I offered 

>to recruit people to help test accessibility of Drupal Core (the 

>default Drupal installation, before extending its functionality with 

>new themes or modules).

>

>Here's the plan:

>

>1. The Drupal Accessibility community will provide scripts with 

>tasks/scenarios for testers to walk through. These will all be 

>focused on authoring, editing, and administrative functions for 

>creating or managing a Drupal site, but we'll also be interested in 

>reviewing accessibility of the output.

>

>2. Between July 1 and July 12, testers will walk step through the 

>scripts using a variety of modalities (e.g., keyboard only, or with 

>various assistive technologies)

>

>3. I'll summarize any problems we identify in a report that I'll 

>share with Drupal developers.

>

>4. July 18-20, there will be an accessibility code sprint at Twin 

>Cities DrupalCamp, where volunteers will work on coding solutions to 

>the problems we identify. They'll also be conducting their own 

>face-to-face usability/accessibility tests at the camp.

><http://2013.tcdrupal.org/>http://2013.tcdrupal.org/

>

>If you're interested in helping out with this effort, please let me 

>know. We need people to participate as testers from July 1-12. Also 

>if you're planning to attend the Twin Cities DrupalCamp we'd love to 

>have your help there too.

>

>Please spread the word among anyone else you think would be 

>interested, especially assistive technology users.

>

>Standing by for volunteers...

>

>Thanks!

>Terrill

>

>--

>Terrill Thompson

>Technology Accessibility Specialist

>DO-IT, Accessible Technology

>UW Information Technology

>University of Washington

><mailto:tft at uw.edu>tft at uw.edu

>206-221-4168

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