Hi, Here’s a report from our gal in The Netherlands. She will write up a nice report (she always does) when she’s home from her day job later today. She answers rms’ question about the use of WAI/Aria (a standard for providing semantics where HTML cannot do so on its own) in a manner that I couldn’t. You might need to add some Aria to Savannah (we’ve not evaluated deeply enough to know if this is true yet) but I think she makes it more clear as to the purpose and use of Aria.
Also, as it’s the least “accessible” term in accessibility, I’ll define “a11y” as “accessibility” - it’s the hash tag used by people with an interest in accessibility on Twitter. HH, cdh > Begin forwarded message: > > From: _mallory <stommep...@stommepoes.nl> > Subject: Re: [Members] Fwd: Introduction and Repositories was:Re: > Accessibility for repositories > Date: June 8, 2015 at 4:10:28 AM EDT > To: 3mt members <memb...@3mousetech.com> > Reply-To: 3mt members <memb...@3mousetech.com> > > On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 07:49:29AM -0400, Chris Hofstader wrote: >> From rms’ email: >> >>> >>> rms: However, we do have a repository of our own: savannah.gnu.org. >>> Sina, would you like to check whether savannah.gnu.org complies >>> with WCAG? >>> >> He also asks the question: >> >>> rms: An "excellent" repository will have to work with JS disabled, >>> and in that mode, it should be accessible without need for >>> WAI-ARIA -- right? > > I think we should be able to expect that all basic, necessary functions > of a repo should be able to work without JS. However both situations > would need separate a11y testing of course. > > WAI-ARIA is for when you are creating things in HTML for which there > is no HTML semantics for. There is no HTML for a value slider, a tab > panel, or any built-in alerts that something has appeared/disappeared, > etc. On top of that, many developers use it to cover not-great HTML > caused by Graphic Designer Demands (such as no visible text allowed > on a button). > > I'll see if I can take a look tonight. > _mallory > > _______________________________________________ > Members mailing list > memb...@3mousetech.com > http://3mousetech.com/mailman/listinfo/members_3mousetech.com
