[themes] accessibility of drupal sites

[Mohammed Al-shar']

mark,

hello. thank you for your points, I shall have a look at the threads you suggested.

actually, I installed the theme switcher module perhaps while you were replying to the first message. :) I will see how it goes.

as I said in my first message, I am not too keen on accesskeys, and I think can do without them.

Regards,
Mohammed al-shar'
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark Hope 
  To: A list for theme developers 
  Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:25 AM
  Subject: Re: [themes] accessibility of drupal sites


  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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