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 - [e-mail] @INDATAProject