Talking Drupal: Talking Drupal #371 – WebOps Enabled Accessibility

Today we are talking about WebOps Enabled Accessibility with Tearyne Almendariz and Blake Bertuccelli.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/371

Topics

• What is WebOps Enabled Accessibility
• Who should be concerned about it
• Describe a few use cases
• What types of tests are good to perform
• If Accessibility is “built-in” why do I need to test for it
• How much accessibility is content related
• Where do you run the tests
• Are they pass / fail or percentage based
• What tools are most common
• How does Pantheon support WebOps Accessibility
• Equalify.app

Resources

• What is WebOps
• An open source project that opens the internet for all
• Equalify.app
• International Accessibility Laws
• Certification Link
• Native Web Components and Accessibility
• Training from Harvard
  • https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/training
  • https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/calendar/upcoming/das-events/accessibility-training-events
• Training from DoJ
• Brian Charlson Keynote
• IAAP Certifications
  • https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/accessible-document-specialist
  • https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/certified-professional
  • https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/wascertification
• Accessibility testing on commit
• Equalify Github repo
• UK gov tool audit
• Accessibility statement on Pantheon

Guests

Blake Bertuccelli-Booth – Equalify.app @bbertucc

Hosts

Nic Laflin – www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi – www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Tearyne Almendariz – @tearyneg

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz – @mandclu

Entity Comparison

• Brief description
  • Generate a configurable comparison table for two or more Drupal entities: products, events, people, etc
  • Not dependent on Commerce, but should be compatible
• Brief history
  • Created in 2017
• Current version
  • Current 4.0 release created in Aug 2022, ready for Drupal 10, and has security coverage
• Actively maintained
• Number of open issues
  • 3 open, 2 have patches
• Usage stats
  • 292 sites
• Module features and usage
  • Generates “Comparison” configuration entities, which specify which entity type and bundle will be used
  • Automatically creates a view mode for the selected bundle
  • Fields set to display will be included in the comparison table
  • Two custom blocks: one to show the link to add to or remove an entity from the comparison (via AJAX), and one to show a link to the comparison
  • Link for toggle of an entity’s inclusion is also available as a field