[themes] accessibility of drupal sites

[Mark Hope]

Mohammed,
I've should have looked at the second site link before posting:
http://www.nattiq.info/

It already has the theme switcher module enabled.

Mark

On 18 Oct 2006, at 09:15, Mark Hope wrote:

> I've posted several times on this issue and asked about it on IRC but 
> it doesn't seem to get much response.
>
> Discussion on drupal.org (or maybe lack of discussion)
>
> Creating a text only site:
> http://drupal.org/node/86058
>
> Easy theme switching:
> http://drupal.org/node/86751
>
>> 1. for visually impaired users, I want them to be able to change the 
>> font size / color / contrast on the fly. one site that does this 
>> beautifully, but it's not drupal powered is our strategic partner's 
>> website at: www.yourdolphin.com
>
> This can be done by switching the theme, and allowing anonymous/not 
> logged in user to switch themes. Your partner site hides images with 
> CSS and applies a few other simple rules.
>
> img, .basket_title
> {
> 	visibility: hidden;
> 	width: 0px;
> 	height: 0px;
> }
> .hidden_image {
> 	display:none;
> 	height:0;
> 	width:0;
> }
>
> I've not implemented this with Drupal yet but the principal is 
> discussed in the above posts.
>
>> 2. provide keyboard users the possibility of reaching some parts of 
>> the website using accesskeys. I know that this method isn't preferred 
>> from what I read about it, but may be the listers can share their 
>> views about this point. I am blind myself, and never need to use 
>> accesskeys as my screen reader has built in commands to reach to 
>> various elements on most websites. actually, most modern screen 
>> readers have this possibility.
>
> I assume this could be done by patching the menu system, to add an 
> "access key field", allowing admins to manually assign keys. I don't 
> have enough knowledge to do this though. Alternatively create a new 
> block and insert some static code for an additional menu. I'm working 
> on this at the moment, creating a "helper links" block which outputs 
> as the first item of html. It contains a link to an accessibility page 
> with a list of access keys, the link to "text only" site (implementing 
> the easy theme switching) links to contact, and a skip navigation 
> link.
>
>>  
>> I am thinking that structuring the website's documents well will 
>> often be most handy. like using different heading sizes, and using 
>> bulleted and numbered lists.
>
> Your website can be structured however you want, by customising an 
> existing theme or creating a new one. The primary links can be changed 
> to output lists - many themes already do. Likewise with the use of 
> heading tags.
>
> Mark
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