Make app accessible

[hackajesse]

Have James Tyack go through it. Idk his github, but he's often at hacknight. I'm sure he'd be game to go through this and/or make suggestions for things we can look out for.

[jszwedko]

@therebelrobot were you able to talk to James?

[jeanwalshie]

i know we took colors/shapes into account when creating the icons (to make them distinguishable for the colorblind) but yes, we should think about this. http://www6.sfgov.org/index.aspx?page=73

[jszwedko]

Are there any actions to be taken for this issue? @jeanwalshie is there someone in the government that can review?

[jeanwalshie]

let me look into it, thanks. stay tuned.

[jszwedko]

👍 thanks!

[jeanwalshie]

ok, it looks like we've done the best we can with this type of a webpage. the only thing we noticed is that the icons in the legend should be properly tagged with alt text, if possible.

[jszwedko]

👍 I can add that text.

[jszwedko]

@jeanwalshie added the alt text in #123 -- let me know what you think!

[jeanwalshie]

@jszwedko -- i don't see the alt text on my icons in chrome. sorry, i'm sure it's something on my end. if they're there we can close this!

[jszwedko]

@jeanwalshie I think you are thinking about title text (which is the text that shows up when you hover over a picture with your mouse to provide more details), but for accessibility you set a different attribute, alt text, which screen readers pick up and read in place of the picture.

If you like, I can add title text too with the same content as the alt text.

Thanks!

[jszwedko]

Added title text in 0a87960 -- it'll need to be merged before publicly visible.

[jeanwalshie]

thanks @jszwedko --sorry, i didn't know the diff between alt text and title text! thanks for doing this.

[jszwedko]

No worries! Closing as the pull request was merged.