Extensions to improve accessibility

by Gisle Hannemyr

This chapter is a tutorial about designing a wizard based on ctools modal forms.

Table of contents

Drupal projects discussed in this chapter: Chaos tool suite.

Introduction

The Web Accessibility Directive (WAD – Directive (EU) 2016/2102) has been in force since 22 December 2016 and provides people with disabilities with better access to websites and mobile apps of public services.

In Norway, this is codified in Forskrift om universell utforming av informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologiske (IKT)-løsninger, which in turn says:

For Norwegian guidelines, see also uutilsynet.no.

Examples referenced by Personvernnemnda:

Standards

Drupal extensions

- textstørrelse:
  Er bygget inn i nettleseren. Trykk på Ctrl og "pluss" eller "minus"
  for å gjøre teksten større eller mindre.
  Kan også gjøres på serveren, jf.:
  https://www.drupal.org/project/text_resize

- høy kontrast
  https://www.drupal.org/project/high_contrast

Text to voice

  https://www.drupal.org/project/google_text_to_speech
  støtter bokmål, men ikke nynorsk
  Den er ikke helt gratis, men ikke skremmende dyrt:
  https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/pricing

https://www.drupal.org/project/read_to_me
https://aws.amazon.com/polly/

Web based tools

Final word

[TBA]


Last update: 2022-01-04 [gh].