Everett Zufelt is an information and communications technology accessibility consultant, and web developer, who is passionate about ensuring that information systems are accessible to the broadest possible audience. Everett is the Drupal Core accessibility maintainer, and is an Invited Expert to the W3C HTML Working Group, where he participates in the HTML Accessibility Task Force.
Submitted by Everett on Fri, 12/23/2011 - 11:49
There is a lot of confusion around the integration of HTML5 and WAI-ARIA, even amongst professionals in the field who have been working with the technologies for some time. One reason for the confusion, at least for me, is that WAI-ARIA defines a set of rules for mapping roles, states and properties to an accessibility API, and does not define any functionality other than this; whereas, HTML5 defines functionality, often but not always relying on WAI-ARIA for accessibility API mapping. This article seeks to answer common questions about the use of WAI-ARIA in HTML5.
Submitted by Everett on Tue, 11/22/2011 - 11:26
Yesterday I was asked if I could investigate how to disable a Drupal Commerce checkout pane depending on the contents of the order. Having never used Drupal Commerce before yesterday the task seemed a bit overwhelming. Thanks to good documentation and help from #drupal-commerce on IRC, I came up with the following.
Submitted by Everett on Sat, 11/12/2011 - 10:57
Slides from my DrupalCamp Toronto 2011 session: HTML5 and the Drupal 8 HTML5 Initiative. Thanks to @Jacine for assistance with information for some of the slides.
Presented 2011-11-12.
HTML a Timeline
* 2000: XHTML 1.0, W3C Recommendation
* 2004: HTML5, WHATWG begins work
* 2007: HTML5, W3C starts HTML Working Group
* 2008: HTML5 Working Draft, W3C
Submitted by Everett on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 13:46
Submitted by Everett on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 20:03
Yesterday I posted the first jQuery UI accessibility review update. Some more work and bugs have been filed today, so I am providing a second update.
Two new bugs have been filed against jQuery UI:
Some issues have been identified for which we require more details or confirmation.
Submitted by Everett on Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:12
As many will know, I am currently undertaking a review of the accessibility of the core jQuery UI widgets. Last week I wrote an article jQuery UI accessibility review: what's the plan?. In that post I outlined my plan for the review. Reviews of several widgets have already been performed, the informal notes can be found in the comments to the article.
This is the first of several status updates. Please find below a list of jQuery UI bugs that I have opened based on results of the review.
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