The Italian government has made a law specifying the accessibility requirements (the most famous is the usage of the Strict XHTML) for public administration websites. To enable Plone front- and back-end to be compliant with these specifications the ItalianSkin project was initiated, but its development has gone beyond the simple implementation of the law and has continued with the objectives of making Plone wholly functional with screen readers for blind people and providing developers with automatic tools to improve the accessibility of their own sites. We would recommend this talk to anyone developing websites and in particular to those who are responsible for accessibility.
Semelhante a ItalianSkin: an improvement in the accessibility of the Plone interface in order to be compliant with Italian laws and screen readers for blind people
Semelhante a ItalianSkin: an improvement in the accessibility of the Plone interface in order to be compliant with Italian laws and screen readers for blind people (20)
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ItalianSkin: an improvement in the accessibility of the Plone interface in order to be compliant with Italian laws and screen readers for blind people
1. ItalianSkin
ItalianSkin, an improvement in the accessibility of
the Plone interface in order to be compliant with
Italian laws and screen readers for blind people.
3. How was born
based on an idea of Vincenzo Barone
developed by Davide Moro (it was my thesis
project at the Polytechnic of Turin)
4. What is ItalianSkin?
... and why this name?
requirements for Italian Public Administrations
websites
the most famous is XHTML Strict
other accessibility requirements
all pages should be validated
Plone uses the Transitional doctype instead
5. Why XHTML Strict?
XHTML Strict
no accessibility motivations
... but
forward compatibility
Transitional doctype is transitional
next versions will be similar to the strict one
more cleaner than Transitional
free of presentation clutter
6. What we have done (1)
Skins
XHTML Strict skin (both front and backend)
default
tableless
Editors
FCKEditor patch
offers some instructions how to use alternative text
display an alert if you don't apply a title/alt to links or images
Kupu vs TinyMCE Editor vs RestructuredText
Franco Carinato will talk about this issue
7. What we have done (2)
Portal transforms
simple XHTML transform
stripped out attributes/elements not allowed
it could be turned off
we will use the configurable Plone3 HTML Filter
now
8. What we have done (3)
Validation tools
what happens introducing bad code?
provided a validation tool
it will be reimplemented with Zope/Plone 3
technologies
9. What we have done (4)
Automatic validation
automatic validation of all content types
special thanks to RedTurtle
code in a separated branch
Massimo Azzolini will talk about this talk
13. Target development version
preview of the new version of ItalianSkin for
Plone 3.0.1
https://labs.redomino.com/ItalianSkin/bundles/3.0.1/
only for development (experimental release)
working in progress...
14. What we have to do (1)...
Improvements to Plone
skins
provide an high contrast skin (for low vision)
or better, provide more that one skins (resting view, ecc...)
same default graphical structure
implements a skin switcher
improve the actual default skin
more color contrast (green font on green background)
increase vertical distance from links
list of links separated from printable characters
15. What we have to do (2)
Improvements to Plone
let's the user to customize the graphical template
background color
font color
ecc...
page template's code
XHTML Strict
check correct labelling controls
text equivalent for every nontext element
16. What we have to do (3)
Improvements to Plone
javascript
some components don't work without JS
resize font
reference popup widget
forms
screen readers'bugs
in edit mode Jaws doesn't read formHelp elements
can we do something?
Franco Carinato will talk about these problems
18. Special thanks
Franco Carinato (Zope Italia), for intensive
testing with screen readers and content editors
Nunziante Esposito (Unione Italiana Ciechi), for
his tests and suggestions
Massimiliano Martinez (Unione Italiana Ciechi),
for his consulting about low vision
Massimo Azzolini (RedTurtle), for building the
validating tool
19. Any questions?
if we are late, at the end of the other talks
