Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: WAI WCAG accessibility standards compliance

3: Re: WAI WCAG accessibility standards compliance (response to 1)

Posted by Dorian Peters on 09/01/05 06:55 AM

An Accessibility evaluation was conducted by Tristan Kalnins-Cole last year. He produced a document listing what would need to be done to bring dotLRN up to A, AA and AAA compliance. It's available in HTML and for more detail, there's a printed version (check the dotLRN Accessibility Study thread - https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=207764)

At the last dotLRN conference in Madrid, Accessibility fixes were a major focus of the bug bash and a lot of things were fixed (like missing alt tags). I entered all the issues discovered by Tristan into the bug tracker, each labelled with the priority level it corresponds too. This should help if you guys are able to start fixing the left over issues. You can go through them in bug tracker.

I agree this is an important issue as compliance with standards, especially for Education, is required by law in many countries includidng the US, UK, Canada and Australia.

Hope this helps.

4: Re: Re: WAI WCAG accessibility standards compliance (response to 3)

Posted by Michele Slocovich on 09/14/05 01:51 PM

Hi Dorian,

I was in Madrid, but I somehow missed the followup to the bug bash.

Now, the are bugs listed in
https://openacs.org/bugtracker/openacs/?format=table&page=10&f%5fstate=7&orderby=submitter%2casc&project%5fid=56106
(sorted by submitter, browse to your name)

it's a total of 23 bugs, of which

3 for "A" level
9 for "AA" level
11 for "AAA" level

i wonder whether we could say dotlrn is at least "A" and put up the corresponding logo, at least on dotlrn site, by fixing those 3 bugs....

Something is quite weird here:
Bug #2445 - script was written to replace empty alt. (ehy i think i wrote this script, and it ran in madrid bug bash...!)

Bug #2449 Fix has been made. Just needs to be tested.

Bug #2450 Fix has been made. Just needs to be tested.

now... those are the 3 "A" level bugs.
hence it seems .LRN is already at a "A" level, still we don't know it... or maybe some last step has to be done...

opinions ?

thanks