Thu 01 Mar 2007 |
| Joomla! 1.5 Accessibility - Buzz, Beez and templates |
| Thursday, 01 March 2007 00:42 |
| In october Johan already wrote about the changes made to the template engine in Joomla! 1.5 beta. He explained the concept of template views the new template parameter and template override system. The next step was the creation of a proof of concept template to showcase what 1.5 is capable off. To that end we splitted the design and accessibility working group into two smaller teams; a design (focussing on a new design for joomla.org) and an accessibility team. The second group was charged with developing a proof of concept that would demonstrate the new features of templating in Joomla 1.5. This work resulted in a very nice template tutorial for Joomla! 1.5 written by Barrie North and BEEZ, a accessible template that makes use of the the new features in Joomla! 1.5. Beez is designed and built by accessibility work-group members Angie Radke and Robert Deutz. The accessibility team still have some work to do on this template, testing and perfecting it. The template will be included in the beta-2 and is already incorporated in the trunk version. If you want to take a look you can use the nightly builds, SVN or just take a look at the Joomla BEEZ site. This site showcases the template and offers documentation about the way this template was built. Currently the site is a German version, however, if you are willing to help out on translating, leave a note in the Design and Accessibility forum-group. If you are interested in more information on this template (how it was build, things to know etc.) I suggest you check back in the Design and Accessibility forum-group, Angie will post a detailed story about the template there. We would also love to hear feedback from template designers and accessibility experts. Accessibility is not an exact sciene, many experts disagree on how things should be done. We would like to hear from you to help us document different solutions. Our goal is to make BEEZ a proof of concept template that helps template designers understand the Joomla! 1.5 template engine and documents how to build accessible templates for Joomla! 1.5. |
