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info_outlineIn this episode of Talking Drupal, we discuss the latest DOJ accessibility ruling and its implications for Drupal with special guest Josh Mitchell. Josh, a seasoned expert who has led teams in digital agencies, governments, and non-profits, sheds light on what the ruling means for state and local governments, the importance of accessibility, and steps to achieve compliance. We also explore the Sa11y module, a powerful tool for enhancing website accessibility, and compare it with the Editorially module. Additionally, we touch on the upcoming MID Camp 2025. Tune in for an insightful discussion on making web content more accessible for all.
For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/498
Topics
- Can you give us an overview of the DOJ Accessibility Ruling
- Does this apply to federal websites
- When does this go into effect
- How does this affect current sites
- Hwo is Drupal positioned against this
- Does this rule apply to all content such as PDFs
- Any tips to organizations
- JS widgets
Resources
- Announcement of the rule
- Full text of the rule - PDF
- Fact sheet for meeting the requirements of the rule
- AXE Core
- Core issue to automate accessibility tests with Nightwatch.js
- Keyboard traps
- COTS - Commercial off the shelf software
- VPATS - Voluntary product accessibility template
- Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR)
- Monsido - Acquia optimize - PDF
- Josh’s blog post
Guests
Joshua "Josh" Mitchell - joshuami.com joshuami
Hosts
Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Kathy Beck - kbeck303
MOTW
Correspondent
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted your Drupal site to have a built-in accessibility tool that could identify things like potential color contrast issues? There’s a module for that
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- It’s worth mentioning that the name is a numeronym, so spelled s-a-1-1-y, which plays off of a common way the word “accessibility” is abbreviated
- How old: created in Jan 2018 by Bryan Sharpe (b_sharpe) but the namespace was taken over in Jun 2024 by Mark Conroy (markconroy) of LocalGov Drupal, so the current 3.0.1 release, which supports Drupal 10 and 11, is a completely different module than the original 8.x-1.x branch.
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained, in fact this module came out of the ongoing work being done on the LocalGov distribution and profile
- Security coverage
- Test coverage: no, but the module is effectively just a wrapper for the Sa11y library, which is CMS agnostic and used in the Wordpress and Joomla communities as well
- The Sa11y library has its own website, which includes documentation
- Number of open issues: 1 open issues, which isn’t a bug
- Usage stats:
- 62 sites
- Module features and usage
- We did cover the Editoria11y accessibility checker as MOTW all the way back in episode #350, almost 3 years ago, and Sa11y was mentioned at that time. Both modules have had major releases since then, so I thought this week’s episode would be a chance to do an updated comparison
- Sa11y does include some checks that Editoria11y does not, such as color contrast checking and a readability score
- The Editoria11y module, on the other hand, includes site-wide reporting that would be helpful for site admins, as well as a wealth of configuration options including one or more DOM elements to use as the container to check within, a list of elements to exclude, and so on. Recent versions of Editoria11y also include an option for live feedback as you edit, which should work with CKEditor 5, Paragraphs 5 or newer, and Gutenberg
- At the end of the day, however, both projects are intended to provide your content editors with immediate feedback on the accessibility compliance of what they create. So, it’s worth looking at the feedback each tool provides and deciding which one is more useful for your team in particular