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.

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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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)

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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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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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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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

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

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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Validation action

Validation results

ItalianSkin tool view

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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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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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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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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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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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

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