Accessibility Assessment and Updates

[allella]

@meredithb104 was interested to check out the accessibility of our open data projects.

Drupal / data.openupstate.org
Drupal 8 (which is due for an update to Drupal 9) at least says they have some accessibility features baked in. We're using a core theme, so I'd hope things which are enabled by default are already turned on https://www.drupal.org/about/features/accessibility Though, I'm glad to look into accessibility issues for https://data.openupstate.org/ if they are posted here or as new issues for this project or the HackGreenville.org project.

Map Previews on data.openupstate.org
I'm not sure of the state of Leaflet accessibility, but here's an open conversation and just skimming it sounds like some issues have been addressed and others are still open.

We're using an old version 0.7.7 and the latest is 1.7.1. So, I'm going to look into updating Leaflet in our new dynamic map rendering script. However, if it's decided that Google Maps, or another tool, is better for rendering previews of our map layers, then we are not hitched to Leaflet, or any mapping tool for that matter. The use of GeoJSON links means we can work with about any modern mapping tool that supports that standard format.

[Malvoz]

Also note that Leaflet now has an accessibility label - for an overview of the issues. 😋

[meredithb104]

Yay!!

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[allella]

Our map previews are now using Leaflet 1.9.3, so we're closer to being able to enjoy the accessibility work of the Leaflet community.