Hi Vincent, This would be for us a real improvement since we had already hack XWiki to have it more accessible than it was for a previous client, and we will audit and improve that effort soon, when we will upgrade that client to your latest release (or at least 1.9 depending on timeframe).
The fields that we have worked on is improving navigation of a page without style, ensuring as best as we could proper reading of the page by readers for disabled peoples. Mostly, this had required a patch in the way object fields are displayed, and many small adjustment in the velocity templates (using a custom skin and some direct patch). Of course, we have not produced a full XWiki compliant solution, but the public part of our site is known to be accessible. You can see it there: http://elsaccessible.com For those who are afraid to limit your ability to develop cool stuffs, I would remind that complying with the rules mainly means providing an accessible solutions to all parts and functions of site (as much as possible), but does not refrain you to provide an event better and more enjoyable solution to non-disabled peoples. This also means, using the coolest and latest web standards to ensure that ! As a contributor, here is my big +1 :) Denis On Oct 28, 2009, at 20:41, Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi devs, > > We've always tried to follow standards in the XWiki project. I'd like > to propose that we start adhering to the WCAG ones to make XWiki even > more accessible. > > The reason I'm proposing this is because XWiki SAS has been contacted > by some Dutch organization promoting the usage of standards in > Netherlands and they're interested in using XWiki for their site. As > such they need that the wiki they use also follows the guidelines... > They've found XWiki since it was one of the wikis out there that > follows most closely the guidelines. > > This is our opportunity to meet the WCAG guidelines and go even beyond > (since the Dutch guidelines go slightly further I believe, see > http://www.webrichtlijnen.nl/english/guidelines/ > ) > . We would be the first wiki to meet this! > > If we agree we'll need to find some ways to automate the execution of > the verifications. Right now we can test pages using this validator: > http://www.webrichtlijnen.nl/english/test/ > > I've started verifying this page: > http://playground.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ > > Result: > http://www.webrichtlijnen.nl/english/test/report/74721/179372/ > > > Some examples of failing stuff: > > 1) Style attribute forbidden. Everything from CSS. > > Ex from home page: > <div id="globallinks"> <form action="/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebSearch" > style="margin: 0; padding: 0;"> <div id="globalsearch"> <input > id="globalsearchinput" type="text" name="text" value="search..." > size="15" class="withTip"/><input class="button" value="Go" > type="image" src="/xwiki/resources/icons/xwiki/search.png"/> </div> </ > form> </div> > ... > <div class="hidden" id="spSpaceCreateForm"><form action="/xwiki/bin/ > view/Main/?xpage=create" method="post"> <div> <input name="tocreate" > type="hidden" value="space"></input> <input class="panelinput" > name="title" onblur="if(this.value=='') this.value='Space name'" > onfocus="if(this.value=='Space name') this.value=''" > style="margin:auto;" type="text" value="Space name"></input> <input > type="submit" value="Create"></input> </div> </form> </div> > ... > <p style="font-size:0.75em;padding-left:8px;"><a href="/xwiki/bin/ > inline/Panels/QuickLinks">(Edit this panel)</a></p> > > 2) Need to run CSS Level 2.1 validation. Lots of error. For ex on home > page: http://bit.ly/4x9YlM > 3) Apparently we made a mistake by choosing to have 2 H1 (one for > title and for headers). "The document hierarchy contains more that one > h1 tags .". > > Before going further I'd like to ensure that we all agree to follow > these guidelines and put in our best practices (and ensure we verify > with some automated tests later on). > Here's my +1 > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
