Mediacurrent Dropcast: Episode 6

This episode we have a special guest, Mickey Williamson, who talks about the importance of Web Accessibility. We also talk about developing a restful todo application with Backbone.js and as always, Drupal 8 updates and other Drupal news. If you would like to be a guest or have any questions, email us at dropcast@mediacurrent.com.

Participants

Bob, Ryan, Mark, Michelle Williamson

Show Updates (Mark):

• Feed available at: http://www.mediacurrent.com/blog/podcasts/dropcast/feed

• Subscribe in iTunes.

• Email your questions to: dropcast@mediacurrent.com

Weekly Drop Plug:

• Issue 192

• Issue 191

• Issue 190

• Issue 189

Mediacurrent Blog Mentions (Bob):

• Highlights From DrupalCon Los Angeles by Didi DuBose, our Senior Marketing Strategist: https://www.mediacurrent.com/blog/highlights-drupalcon-los-angeles; of note, multiple team members highlghted DrupalCon LA Decoupled Drupal session, which highlighted parts of Drupal we are currently missing from Headless Drupal implementation.

• Contrib Committee Status Review for April, 2015 by Damien McKenna, one of Lead Drupal Architect: https://www.mediacurrent.com/blog/contrib-committee-status-review-april-2015; Drupal 8 contributed work brought to you by the Manhattan Associates Drupal 8 project recenty launched by Mediacurrent; several contributions made to the D7 contrib space, including jPlayer and Smart Trim by Mark; David Younker work on Instagram Social; Derek DeRaps continued work on the Classy Panels Styles module and Damien McKenna’s work on Panelizer

• BUILDING ACCESSIBILITY INTO A WEBSITE FROM THE START
  Our guest.

Article 1 (Ryan, et al.):

• Interview with Mickey Williamson.

• Question: What does it mean to make a site accessible? Accessible to who?

• Question: Why is it important to make a site accessible. What are the benefits to the site owner?

• Question: When in the life cycle of a project should accessibility be addressed?

• Question: How accessible is Drupal out of the box?

• Question: Are there any tools you recommend to test accessibility?

• http://www.knowbility.org/

• http://wave.webaim.org/

• Fire Eyes Accessibility Checker - http://www.deque.com/products/fireeyes/

MailDrop:

• Batting .000 on this. Do we need a question bot?

Article 2:

• Forking Todo Restful with Backbone.Marionette

• https://events.drupal.org/losangeles2015/sessions/api-design-musical

• http://live-todo-restful.pantheon.io/

This week in Drupal 8:

• Drupal 8 beta 11 on Wednesday, May 27, 2015

• Drupal 8 beta 12 on Wednesday, June 17, 2015

• Drupal 8 Security bug bounty program: Get paid to find security issues in D8

• New Easy Ways To Explore Drupal 8's Multilingual Capabilities

The final bell:

• Behind The Curtain: The Making Of The Drupalcon Prenote

• Learning To Debug: Stop Thinking And Look

• Drupalcon LA Attendance