Community Magazine

We arrive at our last 3 chapters! In this edition, we will cover Accessibility, Eco-Friendliness, and some extra Optimization Tidbits. Let's dive right in!

The issue of accessibility is highly topical in the business world, as well as in local authorities. In the web domain, this concerns the hearing and visually impaired, as well as certain dyslexic disorders, and even cognitive disorders.

When you're designing or building a website, you'll probably make sure it appeals to your target group, or your client's target group. You'll carefully choose the images and the colours and for the content you'll use wording and vocabulary that fits the target group. But have you thought of the usability and accessibility? Not all visitors can navigate the same way. If you can't use a mouse, how do you know where you are?

In the last article of this series we created a website for a fitness center called “Be fit” and added some colors to the menu and a few page elements. In this article we will stay by “Be fit” and add some movement.

The Internet is an integral part of our lives. Whether we want to search for information, exchange ideas, do our banking or book a train ticket. It's all possible on the web. Unfortunately, people with disabilities still fail far too often due to barriers that make it impossible for them to use such offers.

In the series Meet the team, this month we have an interview with the Joomla Accessibility Team. Accessibility is one of the highlighted features of Joomla 4, and the team is still working on updating and improving Joomla and its properties in the accessibility area.

If you have visited the online Joomla User Group London in the last year you perhaps might have heard and seen our next interviewee in action, Juian White. Julian is an expert in the accessibility area and how he became such will become clear in this interview.

So you want to follow the rules and you installed a cookie notice for your website. Maybe it’s a modest one, maybe it’s one of those extended walls presenting your user with tons of boxes to tick. Whatever type you use: if you want to have a fully accessible website, guess where your cookie notice should be? Hint: probably not where you’d expect it. Julian White explains.

We all know, or at least have heard or read somewhere, that websites need to be accessible for everyone. But what does that mean, and what can you do to make your website fully accessible? Julian White, who experiences accessibility issues on a daily basis, explains the basics for the Joomla Community Magazine

Everyone has his own preferences and needs - and Joomla takes care of them all.

In addition to all the measures taken in the core for providing an accessible authoring tool there are add-ons in Joomla that can make your life easier and make your users and customers feel more comfortable.