[publican-list] RFC: Accessibility Review

[Ryan Lerch]

  On 10/19/2010 09:52 AM, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote:
> I like this idea. I know a couple of people (external) who would probably be happy to do an accessibility review, at least from a vision perspective. I think this is one thing that can really set apart our documentation products from the competition. I do not have enough experience in this to chair a committee, but I am happy to participate on one and to give opinions (as always).
>
> Misty
 From a theorectical point of view we could start by assessing 
publican's output (both documents and the website) against The W3C's Web 
Content Accessibility Guidelines [1].  But I defninitely agree that a 
real life review would be even more valuable.

cheers,
ryanlerch


[1] - http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/

> ----- "Jeffrey Fearn"<jfearn at redhat.com>  wrote:
>
>> From: "Jeffrey Fearn"<jfearn at redhat.com>
>> To: "Publican List"<publican-list at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 9:28:06 AM GMT +10:00 Brisbane
>> Subject: [publican-list] RFC: Accessibility Review
>>
>> Hi, it's been a long time since we have done a review of the
>> accessibility of our output; the web site output has never had such a
>>
>> review.
>>
>> I don't have time to perform or chair such a review, would anyone be
>> interested in chairing or participating in this effort?
>>
>> I believe the web site output has the basic structure required for a
>> fully accessible site, however it's probable that the bits aren't
>> linked
>> to in all the correct places, or in all the correct ways.
>>
>> e.g. we have a page that doesn't use javascript or objects and links
>> to
>> all the content, but is it linked to where it's required, and is the
>> page itself formated in a usable fashion?
>>
>> Cheers, Jeff.
>>
>> -- 
>> Jeff Fearn<jfearn at redhat.com>
>> Software Engineer
>> Engineering Operations
>> Red Hat, Inc
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