The Italian government has made a law specifying the accessibility requirements (the most famous is the usage of the Strict XHTML) for public administration websites. To enable Plone front- and back-end to be compliant with these specifications the ItalianSkin project was initiated, but its development has gone beyond the simple implementation of the law and has continued with the objectives of making Plone wholly functional with screen readers for blind people and providing developers with automatic tools to improve the accessibility of their own sites. We would recommend this talk to anyone developing websites and in particular to those who are responsible for accessibility.

1. ItalianSkin
ItalianSkin, an improvement in the accessibility of
the Plone interface in order to be compliant with
Italian laws and screen readers for blind people.

2. Relators
Davide Moro (Redomino)
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Franco Carinato (Zope Italia)
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Massimo Azzolini (Redturtle)
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Nunziante Esposito (Unione Italiana Ciechi)
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3. How was born
based on an idea of Vincenzo Barone
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developed by Davide Moro (it was my thesis
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project at the Polytechnic of Turin)

4. What is ItalianSkin?
... and why this name?
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requirements for Italian Public Administrations
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websites
the most famous is XHTML Strict
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other accessibility requirements
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all pages should be validated
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Plone uses the Transitional doctype instead
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5. Why XHTML Strict?
XHTML Strict
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no accessibility motivations
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... but
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forward compatibility
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Transitional doctype is transitional
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next versions will be similar to the strict one
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more cleaner than Transitional
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free of presentation clutter
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6. What we have done (1)
Skins
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XHTML Strict skin (both front and backend)
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default
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tableless
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Editors
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FCKEditor patch
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offers some instructions how to use alternative text
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display an alert if you don't apply a title/alt to links or images
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Kupu vs TinyMCE Editor vs RestructuredText
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Franco Carinato will talk about this issue
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7. What we have done (2)
Portal transforms
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simple XHTML transform
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stripped out attributes/elements not allowed
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it could be turned off
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we will use the configurable Plone3 HTML Filter
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now

8. What we have done (3)
Validation tools
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what happens introducing bad code?
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provided a validation tool
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it will be reimplemented with Zope/Plone 3
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technologies

9. What we have done (4)
Automatic validation
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automatic validation of all content types
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special thanks to RedTurtle
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code in a separated branch
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Massimo Azzolini will talk about this talk
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10. Validation action

11. Validation results

12. ItalianSkin tool view

13. Target development version
preview of the new version of ItalianSkin for
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Plone 3.0.1
https://labs.redomino.com/ItalianSkin/bundles/3.0.1/
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only for development (experimental release)
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working in progress...
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14. What we have to do (1)...
Improvements to Plone
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skins
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provide an high contrast skin (for low vision)
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or better, provide more that one skins (resting view, ecc...)
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same default graphical structure
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implements a skin switcher
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improve the actual default skin
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more color contrast (green font on green background)
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increase vertical distance from links
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list of links separated from printable characters
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15. What we have to do (2)
Improvements to Plone
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let's the user to customize the graphical template
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background color
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font color
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ecc...
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page template's code
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XHTML Strict
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check correct labelling controls
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text equivalent for every non­text element
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16. What we have to do (3)
Improvements to Plone
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javascript
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some components don't work without JS
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resize font
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reference popup widget
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forms
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screen readers'bugs
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in edit mode Jaws doesn't read formHelp elements
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can we do something?
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Franco Carinato will talk about these problems
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17. Credits
Main authors
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Davide Moro (Redomino)
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Fabrizio Reale (Redomino)
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Vincenzo Barone (Abstract)
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18. Special thanks
Franco Carinato (Zope Italia), for intensive
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testing with screen readers and content editors
Nunziante Esposito (Unione Italiana Ciechi), for
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his tests and suggestions
Massimiliano Martinez (Unione Italiana Ciechi),
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for his consulting about low vision
Massimo Azzolini (RedTurtle), for building the
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validating tool

19. Any questions?
if we are late, at the end of the other talks
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