Accessible Drupal Six Themes

Submitted by mgifford on

Drupal 6 Theme
So I've been looking at accessibility issues lately and wanted to get a sense of how Drupal 6 themes stack up against the xHTML STRICT standard and also CSS 2.1. I reviewed over 30 Drupal 6 themes in comprising this list. I did the validation via W3C's Jigsaw & HTML Validator. I expect many of these will change in the coming days, and there may be more I need to review, but this list is as of March 9, 2009.  I have added notes on accessibility & validation on all of the themes tested. At this point there were only 13 themes I tested which validated for both CSS & XHTML STRICT validation through W3C.

I've written a follow-up article testing the most valid themes with other accessibility tools.

XHTML 1.0 STRICT & CSS 2.1

XHTML 1.0 STRICT & CSS 3.0

Just XHTML 1.0 STRICT

Just XHTML 1.0 TRANSITIONAL

Just CSS Validates

Does Not Validate

Nickbits posted two interesting survey questions Do you think it is important for (X)HTML & CSS code to validate? and How important do you think it is that (X)HTML & CSS validate?

The Drupal Markup Style Guide is a good starting point for theme Development. 

If there are themes that should be added to the list, or themes that now validate (or don't), please add a comment to this post.

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Comments

I like what you did here

I like what you did here, I for one don't really mind themes that are don't validate as sometimes the extra effort to get everything working isn't worth it.

as long as the theme works under all major browsers then I'm happy.

I can't remember....

I did this last year and not sure if I reviewed the core themes in this or not. However, I'll be looking at Garland & D7 more before the launch so will look back at D6 shortly.

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