Usability

First Glance Accessibility Evaluation of the d7ux Administration Theme "Seven"

Submitted by Everett Zufelt on

New d7ux admin theme menuThis morning I had the opportunity to evaluate the accessibility of the d7ux administration theme (Information Architecture) "Seven". My evaluation was not intended to be thorough, or to identify every web accessibility conformance problem, but to get a feel for what the theme will be like for screen-reader users, and what broad accessibility issues need to be addressed.

I must say that from the perspective of a Drupal administrator and screen-reader user that I believe that the theme will be seen as a useful and welcome addition to Drupal 7 by many users. Although there are clearly many accessibility issues to tidy up before Seven is truly accessible, I was surprised at how easy it was to get accustomed to using the iframe "Overlay" panel which appears at the bottom of the page, (if navigated in DOM order).

Introducing the "Node Form Rearrange" module

Submitted by ethan on

Project Page: http://drupal.org/project/node_form_rearrange

Recently I've been working on a project that requires the taxonomy selection to be better integrated with rest of the input fields in a node creation/edit form. Normally, for node types with more than one associated vocabulary, a fieldset called 'categories' or 'vocabularies' is drawn up containing each of the vocabulary's selection form element:

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