For meetings prior to June 2019, see the old wiki.
June 6, 2019
Nancy Eckert and Veronica Brace from the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS) showed their recently-upgraded web domain (including 5 multisites and several smaller websites) and discussed some of the motivations and challenges encountered in migrating from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8. Presentation Slides
Heather Wozniak announced that our Drupal Showcase is published, with thanks to Paul Keyes, Andy Krikawa, Jeanna Vogt, and Melinda McRae for design, building, and content, and the rest of the UW Drupal community for brainstorming the features and submitting nominations. You can continue to submit sites through the nomination form.
September 5, 2019
Terrill Thompson and Anna Marie Golden of UW-IT Accessible Technology Services shared the results of their accessibility review of 50 Drupal sites at the UW (out of 165 known sites). They evaluated the sites on ten measures of accessibility:
- ARIA landmarks
- Headings
- Zoom
- Skip links
- Dropdown menus
- Carousels
- Visible Focus
- Contrast
- Alt text
- Label on search
See the Presentation Slides for details.
They showed examples of each measure and talked about common weaknesses and strategies for improvement. Their review revealed several patterns in accessibility that we can discuss (and hopefully fix) as a community. We will continue the conversation about having some hackathons or sprints dedicated to accessibility issues.
October 3, 2019
The next Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit will take place here on campus March 28-29 in Mary Gates Hall. There will be opportunities to volunteer in support of the conference as well as submit speaker proposals. Watch https://pnwdrupalsummit.org or subscribe to the mailing list there for updates.
Nancy Eckert from DEOHS shared about Multisite installation profiles in Drupal 8 using Configuration Manager. Presentaton Slides
Dan Druliner from UMAC/Finance shared about User Audits and Views. Presentation slides
December 12, 2019
The UW Drupal Users Group and WordPress Users Group collaborated to bring a first-of-its-kind event, the UW Drupal/WordPress Accessibility Sprint 2019. The event ran from 9am - noon, with lunch provided, and an optional extended work period until 3:00pm. It was held in HUB 214. Our goal was to find and fix as many accessibility issues as possible on our Drupal and Wordpress websites. Over 30 people attended the event.