Koha - WAI / WCAG
Hi there Is there any experience / plan for working around Koha and WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) / WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) for sharing? Thanks in advance. Oscar.
Is there any experience / plan for working around Koha and WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) / WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) for
As far as I know no one has done any formal evaluations of Koha with regard to WAI or WCAG. Suggestions, data, bug reports, etc. are welcome! -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org
On 8 July 2011 21:04, Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org> wrote:
Is there any experience / plan for working around Koha and WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) / WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) for
As far as I know no one has done any formal evaluations of Koha with regard to WAI or WCAG. Suggestions, data, bug reports, etc. are welcome!
That sure sounds like something vendors might have to answer in an RFP process. I have yet to answer an RFP that mentions it, but hopefully some of the other vendors has something to share... If not, maybe we could use the wiki to collaborate on an "answer"? Or if someone has something to share, maybe we could still stick it on the wiki, so we can collaborate on keeping it up to date? Best regards, Magnus Enger libriotech.no
Le 09/07/2011 09:36, Magnus Enger a écrit :
On 8 July 2011 21:04, Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org> wrote:
Is there any experience / plan for working around Koha and WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) / WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) for
As far as I know no one has done any formal evaluations of Koha with regard to WAI or WCAG. Suggestions, data, bug reports, etc. are welcome!
That sure sounds like something vendors might have to answer in an RFP process. I have yet to answer an RFP that mentions it, but hopefully some of the other vendors has something to share...
If not, maybe we could use the wiki to collaborate on an "answer"? Or if someone has something to share, maybe we could still stick it on the wiki, so we can collaborate on keeping it up to date?
As far as I know, bibliotheque-helene.org is quite complying to WCAG and is running koha. Whether there is formal compliance, I donot know, nor if there is a compliance test running. Problem is that all the code added by users (OPACNAV, intranetNAV and Credits and so on...) can break the compliance and Code. But at least, when no system preference badly set, I agree a formal Compliance could be a very nice thing. -- Henri-Damien LAURENT
On 11 July 2011 10:00, LAURENT Henri-Damien <henridamien.laurent@gmail.com> wrote:
As far as I know, bibliotheque-helene.org is quite complying to WCAG and is running koha. Whether there is formal compliance, I donot know, nor if there is a compliance test running. Problem is that all the code added by users (OPACNAV, intranetNAV and Credits and so on...) can break the compliance and Code. But at least, when no system preference badly set, I agree a formal Compliance could be a very nice thing.
Since no-one has stepped forward with a completed assessment, maybe we could collaborate on it on the wiki? My idea is to take some WCAG checklist, format it for the wiki and then we can collaborate on documenting what Koha has/needs. So far I have found this checklist: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/appendixB.html Does anyone know any other checklist that would be better? Best regards, Magnus Enger libriotech.no
Magnus Enger wrote:
So far I have found this checklist: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/appendixB.html
Does anyone know any other checklist that would be better?
Sadly, WCAG 2.0 is not a backwards-compatible upgrade of WCAG 1.0 so http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/#validation is also worth considering. Koha's librarian interface probably can't achieve a high score on WCAG 1.0, but the OPAC should be able to. I'm neutral on the idea of using the koha-community wiki. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and LMS developer, statistician. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for Koha work http://www.software.coop/products/koha
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