Weekly A11y Tools meeting notes - 22/01/25
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<h2>Meeting notes</h2>
<p>bpmn IO has had improvements<br>
<a href="https://bpmn.io/blog/posts/2025-bpmn-js-18-playing-nicely-with-others.html">https://bpmn.io/blog/posts/2025-bpmn-js-18-playing-nicely-with-others.html</a></p>
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<p>Gins contrast issues were discussed in detail<br>
<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1won35PxhRFexJYE8FmZ4DCNTo7xEAxC85kpmqc0iqZg/edit?gid=657743239#gid=657743239">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1won35PxhRFexJYE8FmZ4DCNTo7xEAxC85kpmqc0iqZg/edit?gid=657743239#gid=657743239</a></p>
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<p>New tickets were highlighted<br>
<span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-1"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3491461" title="Status: Active">#3491461: [meta] Some interface components don’t meet the minimum target size</a></span><br>
<span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-13"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3497750" title="Status: Needs work">#3497750: Tags field uses h3 element which creates an unexpected structure</a></span><br>
<span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link drupalorg-gitlab-link-wrapper"><a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupal_cms/-/work_items/3500408" class="drupalorg-gitlab-link">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupal_cms/-/work_items/3500408</a></span><br>
<span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link drupalorg-gitlab-link-wrapper"><a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupal_cms/-/work_items/3500063" class="drupalorg-gitlab-link">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/drupal_cms/-/work_items/3500063</a></span><br>
<span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-8"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/antibot/issues/3406484" title="Status: Needs review">#3406484: Antibot blocks multistep webform submission if user fails to move mouse pointer, and all submissions from some assistive technologies</a></span></p>
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<p>Nightwatch testing in core was discussed. In reference to potentially expanding the coverage and being able to get the tests to run in Drupal CMS as well.<br>
This Change record <a href="https://www.drupal.org/node/3323142">https://www.drupal.org/node/3323142</a> was created after <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3293469" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3293469: Automated A11y tests in Nightwatch</a></span> was completed.</p>
<p>This ticket is still open that covers much of what the project was hoped to achieve:<br>
<span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-1"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2857808" title="Status: Active">#2857808: Automate Accessibility Checks for Core</a></span><br>
Noted that colour contrast was disabled: <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-1"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3318394" title="Status: Active">#3318394: Block UI A11y errors identified with Axe + Nightwatch</a></span></p>
<p>Added more tickets to pickup the outstanding work.<br>
<span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-13"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3501493" title="Status: Needs work">#3501493: Get nightwatch a11y test coverage to use Standard profile</a></span><br>
<span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3501457" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3501457: Incorrect path used in a A11y Test Admin</a></span></p>
<p>This documentation page covers adding A11y tests to nightwatch<br>
<a href="https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/automated-testing/javascript-testing-using-nightwatch#s-writing-accessibility-tests-in-nightwatch">https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/automated-testing/javascript-testing-using-nightwatch#s-writing-accessibility-tests-in-nightwatch</a></p>
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<p>A11y Talks was dicussed with note of the prioritisation used in assessing issues.<br>
<a href="https://a11ytalks.com/posts/2025-jan">https://a11ytalks.com/posts/2025-jan</a></p>
<p>Notes was also made to <a href="https://makeitfable.com/accessible-usability-scale">https://makeitfable.com/accessible-usability-scale</a> as another tool to measure the usability of a digital product for assistive technology users</p>
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