We need to make FOSDEM more accessible

[mgifford]

25% of the population has a disability. 100% of the population has temporary or situational barriers which needlessly stop them from accessing information on the web. The FOSDEM community isn't doing enough to support them. I ran a scan using Oobee, which uses axe. This is the lowest common denominator for meeting basic accessibility requirements. To be compliant with the law we also need to do manual testing, and have a feedback-loop for users with disabilities. But an automated scan like this is a good first step.

It would be better (of course) to break this down into multiple issues, provide pull requests and start to build automated thing but this is a good start:

oobee-scan-results.zip

This should all be built into the CI/CD. Here are two explanations of how to do this:

• Automated accessibility testing on GitHub
• Automated accessibility testing on GitLab
• Basic axe scanner

Mostly for keyword searches. WCAG is used as the baseline of EN 301 549. The European Accessibility Act (EAA) may or may not be applicable to the organizations, but certainly is to those who attend.