Re: [VuFind-Tech] Accessibility of Vufind

[Eoghan Ó C. <eog...@gm...>]

This may be out of date, but Todd Vandenbark rated Vufind as "Excellent" for
Accessibility in 2008: http://www.bsu.edu/libraries/lits/rtv/opacwork.htm.
I'm not sure what the criteria were.

Eoghan

On 12 November 2010 14:33, Walker, David <dw...@ca...> wrote:

> I've not done any formal accessibility testing with VUFind.  But the WAVE
> toolbar for Firefox is a good first step for checking accessibility.
>
>  http://wave.webaim.org/toolbar
>
> Just ran that on the VUFind demo.
>
> The main errors that come up are the lack of form labels for the search
> box, the advanced search form, and the language and date sorting pull down
> menus.  All rather simple fixes.
>
> --Dave
>
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> ________________________________________
> From: Demian Katz [dem...@vi...]
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 5:56 AM
> To: Zeno Tajoli; vuf...@li...
> Subject: Re: [VuFind-Tech] Accessibility of Vufind
>
> The biggest obstacle to accessibility that I am aware of is that certain
> advanced VuFind functionality (real-time availability status, some of the
> account features) relies on Javascript.  However, most of the basic behavior
> is simple enough that it should be fairly accessible.  I am not sure if
> anyone has done formal, standards-based accessibility testing, though.  This
> would certainly be valuable -- if anyone has done this or has the time to do
> so, I would be interested to know how things stand up...  and I would be
> willing to put in some time to help improve any flaws.
>
> - Demian
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Zeno Tajoli [mailto:ta...@ci...]
> > Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 3:16 AM
> > To: vuf...@li...
> > Subject: [VuFind-Tech] Accessibility of Vufind
> >
> > Hi to all,
> >
> > reading the documentation and seeking on JIRA I don't find any hint
> > about accessibility of Vufind.
> > Seeing the demo I think is quite good.
> > Have anyone done any test about accessibility of Vufind?
> > For example a check with section 508 or WCAG.
> >
> > Bye
> >
> >
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