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From: Mickey Williamson
Date: May 17, 2016 1:26PM

Hi Sarah,

I don't have answers for you but I can point you to a couple resources
where you can hopefully do some testing and formulate your own opinions:

1. The CKEditor docs. There's a section on accessibility:
http://docs.ckeditor.com/#!/guide/dev_a11y
2. To enhance accessibility testing in the editor, there's the
Accessibility Checker button addon. It's pricey from what I understand but
looks very interesting - https://cksource.com/a11ychecker/demo/

Hope that's helpful.

Mickey



On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Bourne, Sarah (ITD) <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> The last time (a number of years ago) I did an in-depth review of
> embeddable WYSIWYG HTML editors, CKEditor did not come out on top. (Ahem.)
> Now that I'm back to look at it again, it looks like they have done a lot
> of work. I'm sure a good deal of credit for that goes to Mike Gifford as
> part of his work on Drupal accessibility - CKEditor is the "preferred"
> editor for Drupal. They currently claim WCAG2, 508, and WAI-ARIA (and
> maybe ATAG2) compliance.
> I would like to hear from anybody who is currently using CKEditor with
> assistive technologies (or keyboard-only) about your experience. Is it
> easy to learn and use? Can you compare it pro or con with other embeddable
> WYSIWYG HTML editors? Have you encountered any barriers to task
> completion? No story is too trivial!
> Thank you,
> sb
> Sarah E. Bourne
> Director of IT Accessibility, MassIT
> Commonwealth of Massachusetts
> 1 Ashburton Pl. rm 1601 Boston MA 02108
> 617-626-4502
> <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> http://www.mass.gov/MassIT
>
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