Integration
Drupal accessibility & ADA compliance module
Use Drupal’s accessibility module to provide AudioEye®’s accessibility offering on your platform. AudioEye makes accessibility easy on Drupal(opens in a new tab), a leading digital experience platform that helps you manage and deliver web content across channels and devices.
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Accessibility on Drupal
Compliance Plan
Reduce your risk of costly, time-consuming lawsuits with our compliance offering on Drupal.
Competition
Boost your SEO and stand out among your competitors with more accessible online content.
Consumers
Broaden your consumer base to the 61 million US adults living with a disability.
Certified ADA / WCAG compliance on Drupal
Use Drupal’s accessibility module to provide our accessibility offering on your platform.AudioEye is the only hybrid digital accessibility solution that couples the power of AI/machine learning with a team of certified digital accessibility experts.
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First, sign into your AudioEye account or quickly create an account with a free trial. Simply give us your name, email, and URL, pick your AudioEye plan and be on the lookout for an email in your inbox to activate your account.
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Next, install AudioEye on your site. It's as simple as copying your JavaScript found in your AudioEye Dashboard and pasting it into your Drupal website code. Check out our step-by-step instructions:
Once logged in to your AudioEye account, add your site and copy your Javascript Embed Code to your clipboard
Inside the Drupal admin panel, select "Structure" in the top menu
Choose "Block Layout" at the top of the list
Select the tab labeled "Custom Block Library"
Activate the button to "Add a Custom Block"
In the Block Description field, give your block a name or description
In the "Text Format" dropdown, select "Full HTML"
In the Body menu, choose "Source"
Paste your AudioEye JavaScript Embed Code in the Body text area, and choose "Save"
To place the Custom Block in your site’s footer, return to the Block Layout tab
In the footer list at the bottom, select whichever footer you wish to insert the Custom Block
Locate your Custom Block in the list and choose "Place Block"
Uncheck the Display Title checkbox and select "Save Block"
On the Block Layout Page, choose "Save Blocks"
AudioEye will now be active on your site and will automatically help your site be more accessible
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Once our JavaScript is installed onto your Drupal site, AudioEye will automatically detect and fix the most common errors on your site for you. Our AI-powered fixes and Legal Action Response Plan will be engaged immediately to help in your compliance program.
Frequently asked questions
To support its commitment to providing an accessible website-building tool, Drupal has made accessibility advancements(opens in a new tab) in its core code, beginning with Drupal 7(opens in a new tab). It has done this to ensure features of its standard profile conform with WCAG 2.0 guidelines, the global standard for web accessibility. Some of these accessibility features include proper use of semantic mark-up for proper headings and page-level navigation, drag and drop functionality, color contrast and intensity, adding skip navigation to core themes, form labeling, image handling, removing duplicate or null tags, and others.
However, not every website begins and ends with this standard installation profile. As you add custom content and imagery, additional modules and custom themes, for example, these additions most certainly impact your level of accessibility. Is your markup compliant? Are you colors properly contrasting? Do all of your images have alternative text? To add complexity, standards for compliance are continuously updating. This is where adding the AudioEye Drupal accessibility module will give you accessibility peace of mind—certifying your Drupal website’s ADA / WCAG compliance, keeping up with changing standards, and reducing your risk of an ADA-related lawsuit.
We’ve created a free website to help understand your level of Drupal ADA compliance. Navigate to accessibilitytest.org(opens in a new tab), plug in your URL and you’ll receive a 0-100 accessibility “score.” We use AudioEye’s comprehensive testing tool, but we’ve also aggregated other tools for a comprehensive evaluation—Wave, axe and HTML_CodeSniffer. It’s important to note that with the dynamic nature of website content, you’ll likely never have, or sustain, a 100-percent accessible site. However, even one error may pose a barrier for an individual with a disability, so it’s important to know what those errors are and where they exist.
You can also use built-in features like VoiceOver on your Mac or iPhone to test your accessibility. VoiceOver is similar to a screen reader assistive technology. If you enable the feature and listen to the way in which your website is “read” to you, it will quickly indicate whether you have accessibility errors.
To solve your accessibility issues, simply download and install AudioEye’s Drupal accessibility module. When installed, your Drupal website is ADA compliant, and we certify that compliance with our AudioEye Trusted Certification
When it comes to your Drupal ADA/WCAG compliance, the legal requirements can be confusing. While there are legal mandates for certain entities like government organizations and other publicly funded organizations, the reality is, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) does not specifically mandate website accessibility for private industries, but this has not stopped plaintiffs from suing private businesses for inaccessible online content. And U.S. Federal Courts have repeatedly ruled in favor of accessibility, interpreting the internet as a place of public accommodation and therefore subject to the ADA requirements. This means risk of non-compliance may cost a company tens of thousands of dollars in legal battles, not to mention consume a great deal of time and costly overhead.
No question Drupal has done a great job committing to accessibility and building features into its standard profile. However, the challenge with any website on any platform is that your content and images are unique to your business or organization. That means, regardless of any out-of-the-box accessibility features, you must be sure your additional modules and custom content are also accessible according to WCAG standards. Some of the most common errors include improper color contrast, a logical navigation/heading structure, meaningful labels, alternative text for images, and descriptive hyperlinks. Further, the globally recognized standards for accessibility are continuously evolving. In fact, WCAG version 2.2(opens in a new tab) includes new accessibility requirements the World Wide Web Consortium is referring to as “success criteria.”
In short, it’s hard for any platform to keep up with, and implement, features that support the changing standards. AudioEye not only keeps ahead of the WCAG standards, we’re continuously engineering automatic fixes to correct the most common errors on the spot. Once you download the Drupal accessibility module and install AudioEye on your website, we’ll immediately certify your Drupal ADA compliance.
Accessibility on your Drupal website is easy with AudioEye. Simply establish an AudioEye account, pick your plan, download and install the AudioEye Drupal accessibility module, and our technology gets to work finding and fixing the most common WCAG errors. You will also then notice our Toolbar on your website (look for and click the accessibility icon(opens in a new tab)). Our Toolbar enables users to personalize their interactions by adjusting things like color contrast, font spacing and size, visual emphasis and more
Installing the Drupal accessibility module to your website not only significantly reduces your risk of a potentially costly and time-consuming ADA legal battle, but it also ensures your content, products, and services are accessible to the one billion consumers worldwide who are living with a disability(opens in a new tab). And these consumers, with their friends and family, represent upwards of eight trillion dollars in expendable income.(opens in a new tab) Further, an accessible website vastly improves your website’s SEO. Search engines can more accurately interpret your content with proper semantic markup/page structure. And maybe most importantly, an accessible website positions your brand as one that is more accessible, one that values an equitable online experience for users of all abilities. Win, win, win, win!
Drupal puts it this way (and we agree): “…our idealized Drupal community does not build accessible software because of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (in the US), the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), or some other legal requirement. We build accessible software because we value people. We have opinions about right and wrong, good and bad, etc., and we—ideally—value all people.”