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Thank you for your interest in Accessibility in Drupal! You can contribute to accessibility by joining one or more of the following:
- Drupal community members discuss accessibility topics in the #accessibility channel on Drupal Slack.
- The Contribute to Accessibility Initiative page lists issues that the group is working on.
- The Drupal core Accessibility maintainers hold online "Office Hours" meetings on the 3rd Thursday of each month, at 5:00 pm (17:00) in US/Pacific time. Meetings are also announced in the #accessibility Slack channel.
- There are monthly virtual meet-ups known as "Accessibility Talks", on a variety of topics in the area of Digital Accessibility. Many Drupal community members participate. These are also announced in the #accessibility Slack channel.
Information Links
- You can read the Accessibility Guide to learn about accessibility features in Drupal, how to make an accessible site, accessibility reviews, and other topics.
- The Drupal Accessibility overview page provides more links to information about accessibility.
- Accessibility is closely interrelated with Usability. See the Contribute to Usability page for more information.
Tasks and Roles in this area
Accessibility group member
(Contributor role)
Improve the accessibility of Drupal core and contributed modules, themes, and distributions
Duration:
ongoing
Create a merge request for an issue
(Contributor task)
Add or update a "merge request" (software fix) on an issue
Duration:
1 hour
Create a patch for an issue
(Contributor task)
Add a "patch" (software fix) to an existing issue
Duration:
1 hour
Manually test a proposed fix for an issue
(Contributor task)
Manually test a patch or merge request that has been proposed as the fix for an issue
Duration:
20 minutes
Review a patch or merge request
(Contributor task)
Review a software fix proposed by a different developer
Duration:
20 minutes
Software tester
(Contributor role)
Manually test Drupal core or contributed modules, themes, or distributions
Duration:
ongoing
Test a patch or merge request for accessibility
(Contributor task)
Perform accessibility tests for a proposed software fix (patch or merge request)
Duration:
20 minutes
Translation group manager
(Contributor role)
Oversee the translators and translation moderators for a language
Duration:
ongoing
Translation moderator
(Contributor role)
Review new and updated translations, marking them either as approved or rejected
Duration:
ongoing
Translator
(Contributor role)
Translate English text that is part of the Drupal and contrib module codebase into other languages
Duration:
ongoing
Skills used
There are tasks and roles in this area that require these skills:
Accessibility
Testing and improving web site accessibility for people with disabilities
Drupal site administration
Updating site configuration, managing content, managing user accounts
Drupal site building
(need review) Installing modules, building content types, creating taxonomy vocabularies, creating views, making menus, etc.
Mentoring
Build confidence in novices by helping novices complete relevant tasks
Software testing (quality assurance, or QA)
(needs review) Testing web software
Translating
Ability to translate English text to another language
Using Git
(needs details) Applying patches, making patches, using branches and tags
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