Talking Drupal #049 - Assistive Technology with Wade Wingler

Topics

Wade Winger Bio
Definition of Assistive Technology
Crossroads and InData Project
Web Accessibility
Legal requirements for providing an accessible website
Impact of current technology
Getting help developing website

Resources

Easter Seals Crossroads Assistive Technology - http://www.eastersealstech.com/category/assistive-technology-update/
Making your website more accessible Video Series - http://www.eastersealstech.com/a11y
Wave Tool Bar - http://wave.webaim.org/toolbar/

Legal Resources

http://www.ada.gov/pcatoolkit/chap5toolkit.htm
http://www.access-board.gov/guidelines-and-standards/communications-and-it/about-the-section-508-standards
http://www.jimthatcher.com/law-target.htm 

Online References

www.w3c.org/wai
http://theweco.com/
www.a11yproject.com
http://www.webaxe.org/
https://drupal.org/project/accessibility
www.webaim.org/toolbar

Local resources (state assistive tech act projects)

Www.EasterSealsTech.com/states

Module of the Week

Trasliteration - https://drupal.org/project/transliteration

Provides one-way string transliteration (romanization) and cleans file names during upload by replacing unwanted characters.

Generally spoken, it takes Unicode text and tries to represent it in US-ASCII characters (universally displayable, unaccented characters) by attempting to transliterate the pronunciation expressed by the text in some other writing system to Roman letters.

Hosts

Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross
Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental
John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com t@johnpicozzi
Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan
Wade Wingler - [email protected] @INDATAProject