Cuirass accessibility

Cuirass accessibility

[Mathieu Othacehe]

Hello,

As part of the Cuirass NLNet grant[1], the website at
https://ci.guix.gnu.org has been audited by the Accessibility
Foundation[2].

I have made the report public here[3]. Although I have already applied a
bunch of accessibility related fixes, there's still some work left. The
report if full of interesting teachings, and if some people want to join
me, they are more than welcome :).

Thanks,

Mathieu

[1]: https://othacehe.org/gnu-guix-continuous-integration---nlnet-grant.html
[2]: https://www.accessibility.nl/en/english
[3]: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-cuirass.git/commit/?id=a9925ec3b5c3be1ee1fe16d9fd51225a8be32a1d

Re: Cuirass accessibility

[Luis Felipe]

On Thursday, May 13, 2021 7:07 PM, Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> As part of the Cuirass NLNet grant[1], the website at
> https://ci.guix.gnu.org has been audited by the Accessibility
> Foundation[2].

That's nice.


> I have made the report public here[3]. Although I have already applied a
> bunch of accessibility related fixes, there's still some work left. The
> report if full of interesting teachings, and if some people want to join
> me, they are more than welcome :).

Not offering to help right now, but just wanted to comment that I've audited a couple of websites before for accessibility using the WCAG-EM 1.0 (although I'm not an expert), and I've found that while website developers tend to improve accessibility based on the results, websites lose part of that accessibility again when their maintenance change hands or depend on new people that are not familiar with accessibility.

Personally, I also tend to forget some best practices with time...

Maybe, with Guix websites, READMEs could state clearly developers are aiming for Level AA conformance, and suggest contributors to check for common accessibility problems (and even HTML/CSS/FEED validity) when they make structural or style changes.

Re: Cuirass accessibility

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Mathieu,

Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> skribis:

> I have made the report public here[3]. Although I have already applied a
> bunch of accessibility related fixes, there's still some work left. The
> report if full of interesting teachings, and if some people want to join
> me, they are more than welcome :).

Nice!  (Direct link:
<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-cuirass.git/plain/doc/accessibility-report.pdf?id=a9925ec3b5c3be1ee1fe16d9fd51225a8be32a1d>.)

It’s great that NLNet offers that.  I learned the phrase “hamburger
menu”, which makes a lot of sense!

Ludo’.