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