ATAG 2.0 AA Goals in Drupal 9: Supporting Accessible Content Creation

We’ve made some initial steps toward adopting Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 AA best practices in Drupal 8, but there’s a lot more that needs to be done to incorporate this fully.  I think it would be beneficial for the Drupal community to take the next step in accessibility by embracing ATAG 2.0 AA along with WCAG 2.0 AA in Drupal 9.

The implications of this will be significant as ATAG is essentially about building an authoring experience that encourages authors to produce more semantic content while editing the content. We’ve made some advances with help text, defaults for alt text and defaults for the WYSIWYG, but this is just scratching the surface of the guidelines.

We need more people engaged in the documentation and accessibility enhancements that we have done. Users need to be intelligently directed to create more accessible content.