Accessibility and Bugzilla

[Gervase Markham]

Joel Peshkin wrote:
> 
> 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...
<snip>

Actually, quite a bit of this is done - someone went on a spree a while 
ago, although I don't know how extensive it was.

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

Do we have any that _aren't_ purely decorative? OK, we have dep graphs 
and charts, but you can't really describe their contents in text.

Gerv