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The team behind the Vanilla Framework has a background in development, UX and Visual Design. We all care about accessibility, but none of us is an accessibility expert. We were interested in evaluating how well the framework complies with accessibility standards. We decided to start with an internal audit, fix any issues we find, then look for a third-party service to evaluate the framework from the perspective of real-world users with disabilities Scope For the internal audit, we focused on 3 aspects: Identifying and fixing issues using the WCAG-EM Website Accessibility Evaluation Report Generator. A list of the results can be found in our accessibility report results document. Identifying and fixing validator issues Going through a component level checklist. Identifying and fixing issues Level A and AA fixes We conducted a site-wide audit using the WCAG-EM Report Tool filtered by level A and AA. Here are some highlights: darker :link colour, allowing us to meet the requ...

This post marks the one year anniversary of the Ubuntu Robotics newsletter. We knew adding the year on the end of each title was a good idea! One full year where the Ubuntu Robotics team have been documenting their work, showcasing projects in ROS and discussing interesting things going on in the community.  And my, what a year it has been. To mark the occasion, we’d love to hear and write about any work you’ve done in robotics or ROS over the last year.  Send a summary of your work to robotics.community@canonical.com, and we’ll feature it in next month’s blog. Anyway, enough of the preamble, on to some news. See you at ROS World 2020 Come and connect with us at ROSWorld on November 12th! We’ll be around to answer all of your questions. This is the first time ROSCon has ever been virtual so it’s a bit new to us and we want to hear about your robot projects! We have something called a “virtual booth” that you can “visit” and if we’re not there, you’ll find someone stationed on...