[savannah-help-public] Fwd: [Members] Introduction and Repositories was:Re: Accessibility for repositories

[Chris Hofstader]

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 <address@hidden>

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 <address@hidden>

Reply-To: 3mt members <address@hidden>

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

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