Accessibility and Bugzilla

[Joel Peshkin]

All:

   After playing with the developers toolbar, the question of 
accessibility for the disabled piqued my interest.  We do not appear to 
be very far off right now.  Many of the practices we use just for good 
w3c validation and compatibility get us about 90% of the way to passing 
accessibility checks.

  This represents an opportunity to continue to differentiate Bugzilla.  
I am considering pushing towards passing the disabled access audits for 
2.20.  Should we take that on??

There is a fine tutorial at http://www.jimthatcher.com/webcourse1.htm 
and I believe that the biggest impact to the Bugzilla code is descibed 
in http://www.jimthatcher.com/webcourse8.htm

   By and large, it seems that the biggest change is we would need to 
change...

<td>Foo:</td><td><input .... id="foobox"></td>
to
<td><label for="foobox">Foo</label>:</td><td><input .... id="foobox"></td>

and we would have to make sure we add alt tags to all graphics (the 
purely decorative ones get alt="")

Please comment.

-Joel