Additional TPAC accessibility (WCAG) improvements
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Evergreen |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The TPAC has seen many accessibility improvements over the last year, but there is still more to do. For compliance with local accessibility standards, the Natural Resources Canada Library (http://
Here is a copy of their report:
They were using the WCAG 2.0 (AA) guidelines (http://
My plan for this project is to work through each page of the catalog using the validator to implement suggested changes. These are primarily minor issues like missing alt tags, repeating (nondescript) link titles, etc. and some HTML validation issues (like extra divs, etc.). Items from the NRCAN report which the validator cannot catch will be discussed here and addressed individually.
[Beware the free version of the validation tool I'm using does not support cookies, so it's of limited value without a license.]
I've already started working on the simple stuff. Working branch to follow shortly.
Changed in evergreen: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in evergreen: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Code pushed:
http:// git.evergreen- ils.org/ ?p=working/ Evergreen. git;a=shortlog; h=refs/ heads/user/ berick/ lp1268636- tpac-wcag- improvements
The commits are not well-documented at this point, so when I reach a good stopping point, I'll rebase and add better docs.