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# Talking Drupal #350 - Accessibility Scanning & Testing
Today we are talking about Accessibility Scanning & Testing with Mike Gifford & Daniel Mundra.

[www.talkingDrupal.com/350](https://www.talkingDrupal.com/350)

## Topics
* Accessibility Scanning and Testing
* Goals
* Popular tools
* Drupal tools
* Storybook
* VPAT
* OpenACR
* How it replaces VPAT
* OpenACR and Drupal
* Tackling Accessibility
* Tools to use
* Automation
* CI/CD
* Issues that will not be caught

## Resources
* OpenACR
    * https://github.com/GSA/openacr
    * https://gsa.github.io/openacr-editor/
* [Accessibility Scanner](https://www.drupal.org/project/accessibility_scanner)
* [Editoria11y](https://www.drupal.org/project/editoria11y)
* [Pa11y + Axe](https://accessibility.civicactions.com/posts/automated-accessibility-testing-leveraging-github-actions-and-pa11y-ci-with-axe)
* [Cypress-axe](https://www.npmjs.com/package/cypress-axe)
* [Open source & accessibility (including list of open source tools)](https://accessibility.civicactions.com/)
* [Site improve](https://www.siteimprove.com/)
* [Purple hats](https://github.com/civicactions/purple-hats)
* [WCAG-EM](https://github.com/w3c/wai-wcag-em-report-tool)
* [Fable tech labs](https://makeitfable.com/)
* [Least accessible site](https://www.matuzo.at/blog/building-the-most-inaccessible-site-possible-with-a-perfect-lighthouse-score/ )
* [Spoke truing tool](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFOng1UXn-g )
* [GAAD Pledge](https://www.drupal.org/association/blog/gaad-pledge-2022-extending-drupals-accessibility)

## Guests
Mike Gifford - [mgifford.medium.com](https://mgifford.medium.com) [@mgifford](https://twitter.com/mgifford)
Daniel Mundra - [danielmundra.com](https://www.danielmundra.com)

## Hosts
Nic Laflin - [www.nLighteneddevelopment.com](https://www.nLighteneddevelopment.com) [@nicxvan](https://twitter.com/nicxvan)
John Picozzi - [www.epam.com](https://www.epam.com) [@johnpicozzi](https://twitter.com/johnpicozzi)
Mike Herchel - [herchel.com](https://herchel.com/) - [@mikeherchel](https://twitter.com/mikeherchel)

## MOTW
[Editoria11y](https://www.drupal.org/project/editoria11y)
Editoria11y ("editorial accessibility") is a user-friendly checker that addresses three critical needs for content authors

1. It runs automatically. Modern spellcheck works so well because it is always running; put spellcheck behind a button and few users remember to run it!
2. It runs in context. Views, Layout Builder, Media and all the other modules Drupal uses to assemble a complex page means checkers that run on individual fields cannot "see" errors that appear on render.
3. It focuses exclusively on content issues: things page editors can easily understand and easily fix. Editoria11y is meant to supplement, not replace, testing with comprehensive tools and real assistive devices.
