[support] accessibility of drupal sites

[Mohammed Al-shar']

hi Greg,

I do agree, bottom line is that people will make what they will make. at 
least we should try to keep drupal official themes and code adherent to 
accessibility issues.

Regards,
Mohammed al-shar'
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Knaddison - GVS" <Greg at GrowingVentureSolutions.com>
To: <support at drupal.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: [support] accessibility of drupal sites


> On 10/17/06, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073 at student.lu.se> wrote:
>> Greg Knaddison - GVS wrote:
>> > I think it would be great if there were a theme that catered
>> > specifically to people with bad eyesight and/or who are blind.  I
>> > imagine that there are some Drupal themes which do reasonable well in
>> > this regard, but making one that had that as its main goal would
>> > certainly provide the best solution.
>> >
>>
>> Is not the main point of accessibility that all sites should be
>> accessible???
>
> I don't think so.  I run several sites that are for a specific group
> of people.  They don't need or want changes to the theme to make the
> sight accessible.  Other sites I've worked on target individuals age
> 55+ and were therefore made easier to read with bad eyesight (higher
> contrast font/background and larger text).
>
> All public sites should be at least minimally accessible, but if we
> are talking about people who have impaired eyesight, then many of the
> recently proposed "new themes for core" have off-black text on a
> greyish-? background which leads to difficult reading (even for folks
> with perfect sight).  And little attention has been paid to that
> issue.  It's also impractical to say that we won't allow themes into
> CVS if they aren't sufficiently accessible - people will make what
> they will make.
>
> Regards,
> Greg
>
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