Accessibility

Scrolling down the Lighthouse report, we come to an Accessibility section. The score is quite good; the only issues are caused by some poor color contrasts:

Figure 14.11 – Accessibility audit from Google Lighthouse

Usually, markup produced by Drupal is pretty accessible; the community behind the CMS is very sensitive about this topic. Main issues are usually added by our custom templates.

This is not a book about accessibility; that is a huge topic, and there are many resources about it – for example, in the Mozilla Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility. In the next sections, we’ll discuss the features that Drupal provides us with to implement some of the techniques required to make a website as accessible as possible.

One of the best forms of help that you can give to your users is to correctly set the attributes defined by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) specifications...