Accessibility Team
The Accessibility Team assists to improve and maintain the accessibility in TYPO3. Therefore we share our accessibility expertise with TYPO3 developers.
Our Mission
We help to improve and maintain the accessibility in TYPO3.
To enable sharing information with everyone, we need to ensure accessibility of the content and the editing interface. Therefore the team members share their accessibility expertise with all TYPO3 developers. We always welcome supporters of an accessible TYPO3. You can support us by providing your expertise, but also asking questions on the topic of accessibility in one of our monthly Accessibility hour helps. If you are developing your own extension or contribute to the core, feel free to get in contact to ensure accessibility of the results.
How can you meet us?
You can contact us in the #accessibility channel on TYPO3 Slack. That is also where we meet once a month (on the fourth Monday of the month at 15:00 German time) to discuss accessibility topics in the TYPO3 Accessibility Hour.
Why is accessibility important
Accessibility is an essential part of an inclusive user experience. Improving accessibility by removing barriers will simplify the usage of TYPO3 for everyone.
Support Editors
To support editors, information on accessibility issues should be given on editing elements. We could highlight missing alternative texts for images. Additionally helping information on how to write a good alternative text can be given. Editors need to be aware of accessibility. Then should be guided in creating accessible webcontent.
The Backend accessibility
The user interface of the authoring tool is not accessible yet. Firstly we set a focus on keyboard interaction. In addition the layout and the design as well as a consistent usage of interactive elements needs to be in focus.
Accessible Frontend
The frontend is the most important part for the audience of a website. Delivering an accessible frontend is already possible with TYPO3. However we still want to improve and update the default rendering.
