Glossary - A
Digital accessibility concerns the adaptation of information and communication technologies (ICT), such as websites, mobile applications, software, electronic documents, etc., so that they can be used equitably by everyone, including those with physical, sensory, cognitive, or other limitations.
The 7 key points of digital accessibility:
- Inclusive design: Digital accessibility begins with design that considers the needs of all potential users from the outset.
- Navigation and interaction: Digital interfaces must be designed to allow clear, logical, and consistent navigation, interaction, and access to all features, using an organized navigation structure and explicit labels.
- Adapted content: Digital content must be presented in a way that is understandable and usable by all, with clear text, a hierarchical structure, and alternative descriptions for visual elements.
- Visual accessibility: It is essential to ensure that people with low or no vision can access information in alternative ways, by adjusting font size, ensuring adequate contrast, and providing text alternatives for images.
- Auditory accessibility: Deaf or hard-of-hearing people must have access to information without depending on sound, particularly through the use of subtitles and text transcriptions.
- Motor accessibility: People with physical limitations must be able to access interactive features without obstacles, using keyboard shortcuts, providing suitable clickable elements, and ensuring compatibility with assistive technologies (e.g., screen readers or Braille devices).
- Testing and evaluation: It is crucial to regularly test and evaluate digital accessibility using automated assessment tools and manual tests conducted by representative users to identify and correct any issues.
The ARIA standard, or Accessible Rich Internet Applications, is a technology that improves the accessibility of web applications, including those built with Drupal. It provides special attributes to use in HTML code to indicate to screen readers and other assistive technologies how to interact with interactive elements, such as dropdown menus or modals, in a way that is more understandable for users with disabilities.
ARIA plays a vital role in enhancing the user experience for people with disabilities by making websites more accessible and interactive.
It is also a standard maintained by the W3C.
API reference site for the Drupal developer documentation. [https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal] (Api.drupal.org).
Aegir is a distribution that automates many of the common tasks related to deploying, maintaining, or backing up your Drupal sites. It is a "super distribution" in the sense that it allows to administer all the distributions installed on your server. Do you want to deploy a DrupalCommerce, OpenAtrium, OpenEntreprise, Drupal7, Drupal8 site? Your deployment takes less than 5 minutes if you master your domains :) Moreover, the distribution allows you to manage more efficiently your multi-site architectures, or the administration of a site with heavy traffic in the case of a multi-server hosting.
AMOA is the Project Management Assistance, that is to say the bearer, the commander of a project. In the case of a Web project, its role is to help clarify the needs and explain it for the providers in charge of the project. In concrete terms, it organizes workshops with the client, drafts the specifications and / or the tender. It can also intervene during the recipe.
The API is a programming interface. It includes a particular set of rules ("code") and specifications that software can follow to communicate with each other. For Drupal, there is the API reference that shows the documentation available to developers. There is also a "Form API" and a "Field API".