Hi Steve, Thanks for choosing Google Project Hosting and thanks highlighting these accessibility problems. We do take accessibility seriously and try to make the site accessible, but sometimes mistakes slip through. I think the items you pointed out are mainly oversights that we can correct without much effort. I've entered this issue to track the work to be done: http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=4368 You may want to star that issue so that you receive notification of comments and updates.
Good luck with your students' projects and feel free to enter /p/support issues for any other problems that you find. Thanks, jason! On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Steve Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > At ProjectPossibility.org we get students to work on innovative open > source accessibility projects and we selected Google Code hosting as > being the most suitable platform to host the project development. > > However after a quick check we found a number of fairly basic > accessibility issues which we feel really need fixing so all users can > access the projects. This will help reduce barriers to community > engagement and allow contributions by people who need accessibility, > which is obviously important for our projects. > > We are keen to see Google code become accessible for these reasons, > otherwise we will need to find something else. We are naturally happy > to help out and there are others in the accessibility community who > may be willing to chip in. Perhaps Charles and T.V. in the Google > accessibility group would chip in? While the issues are fairly basic > their AxsJAX technology could add great accessibility features, as it > did to Google Reader. > > The following is the list of issues found by a Project:Possibility > team member. It is not exhaustive, rather the results of a quick > audit. > > Regards > > -- > Steve Lee > > Project:Possibility > Full Measure - open source accessibility - http://fullmeasure.co.uk > > > GoogleCode Accessibility Review > > Common Issues > > 1. Better Alt tag for project logo > 2. No “Skip Nav” or “Skip to Content” link. > 3. Label missing from Search Projects text field. > 4. Does not gracefully collapse horizontally > * The pages should linearize vertically as it is collapsed > horizontally > * Avoid fixed width pages. > * Avoid using PX, instead us EM. > * Use Divs instead of tables for layout > > Project Home > Summary Section > > * See Common Issues 1-4 > * Incorrect read order (Right column reads before left column) > * Some images lack Alt or LongDesc tag > * Improperly used headers (H2’s & H3’s but no H1’s) > > Updates > > * See Common Issues 1-4 > * Improperly used headers (H4’s but no H1’s, H2’s or H3’s) > > People > > * See Common Issues 1-4 > > Downloads > > * See Common Issues 1-4 > * Some images lack Alt or LongDesc tag > * Inaccessible drop-down menus (pop-up/mouse over) > > Wiki > > * See Common Issues 1-4 > * Some images lack Alt or LongDesc tag > * Inaccessible drop-down menus (pop-up/mouse over) > > Issues > > * See Common Issues 1-4 > * Some images lack Alt or LongDesc tag > * Inaccessible drop-down menus (pop-up/mouse over) > > Source > > * See Common Issues 1-4 > * Improperly used headers (H4’s but no H1’s, H2’s or H3’s) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en.
