Django Uni-Form

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What is Section 508? In 1998 the US Congress amended the Rehabilitation Act to require Federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities. Section 508 was enacted to eliminate barriers in information technology, to make available new opportunities for people with disabilities, and to encourage development of technologies that will help achieve these goals. The law applies to all Federal agencies when they develop, procure, maintain, or use electronic and information technology. Under Section 508 (29 U.S.C. § 794d), agencies must give disabled employees and members of the public access to information that is comparable to the access available to others. -Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_508)

What is Section 508?

What is Section 508? Rules for making technology theoretically accessible by individuals with disability.

What is Section 508? Rules for making technology theoretically accessible by individuals with disability. Easy to implement if you know how.

What is Section 508? Rules for making technology theoretically accessible by individuals with disability. Easy to implement if you know how. Unfortunately doesn't actually force software to be accessible to the disabled.

What is Section 508? Rules for making technology theoretically accessible by individuals with disability. Easy to implement if you know how. Unfortunately doesn't actually force software to be accessible to the disabled. Enforceable across all government agencies or organizations accepting money from government agencies.

Why do we care?

Why do we care? US Government work requires it.

Why do we care? US Government work requires it. Disability software is said to be a $170 billion a year industry.

Why do we care? US Government work requires it. Disability software is said to be a $170 billion a year industry. Open source tends to support accessibility/usability well.

Why do we care? US Government work requires it. Disability software is said to be a $170 billion a year industry. Open source tends to support accessibility/usability well. Its the right thing to do!

Lets get technical

Tables are for tabular data

In Section 508, most tabular forms are forbidden!

In Section 508, some tabular forms are allowed

Django forms rock!

Normal forms rock!

Model forms rock!

Forms as paragraphs

Forms as unordered lists

Out of the box pretty Django forms are tabular

Django forms summary Native views of Django forms can be Section 508 compliant Hard to do form-style layouts with paragraphs Harder to do form-style layouts with unordered lists Table based formats are mostly verboten Django docs do show how to do div based forms

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Django Uni-Form =

Django forms docs on divs +

Simple Django custom filter +

Dragan Babić's Uni-Form library

Django Uni-Form = Django forms docs + template tag + Uni-Form css/js forms library

http://github.com/pydanny/django-uni-form

Who uses it?

Basic Usage

Intermediate Usage I

Intermediate Usage II

Layout Controls - The Form

Layout Controls - The Controls

Layout Controls - The Template

The Future of Django Uni-Form

Contributing Back

http://github.com/pydanny/django-uni-form

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Django Uni-Form

by Daniel Greenfeld on Nov 18, 2009

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