Talk:Drupal/Archives/2012/November

ITEC 544 Proposed changes

Drupal is an open source content management system developed by a large, international community. The Drupal community would like to make the CMS more useful and easy to use for site administrators. It is used to build subjects from personal blogs to enterprise applications. Its assets include thousands of add-on modules and designs that enable users to construct virtually any site imagined. Additionally, Drupal is an accessible tool for building websites that can also be accessed by people with disabilities--this initiative began with advancements of the Drupal 7 accessibility. The accessibility team has worked to identify accessibility barriers with Drupal and worked to resolve them. A great deal of research and development has been used to identify and resolve a number of issues in the core code of Drupal 7, which in return has raised awareness within the community. With the additional support for Rich Internet Applications by adding some WAI-ARIA support, there have been many improvements to both the visitor and administrator sides of Drupal, especially:

• Search engine form and presentation • Drag and Drop functionality • Color contrast and intensity • Adding skip navigation to core themes • Image handling • Form labeling • Removing duplicate or null tags

The source used is from Drupal.org home page and Social Technology review:

Citation:

Drupal. Retrieved November 12, 2012, http://drupal.org/

Social technology review. Drupal: Advantages and Disadvantages of Choosing Drupal as Your CMS Solution. Retrieved November 12, 2012, http://www.socialtechnologyreview.com/articles/drupal-advantages-and-disadvantages-choosing-drupal-your-cms-solution

This submission was based on group project this semester at the University of South Carolina for the Information Technology program. This update should provide a great stepping stone on the accessibility of Drupal.

keargle and Matlin372 (talk) 01:08, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Version numbers

The 4.x version series (4.0, 4.1, 4.2...4.7) comprised what most I think most people would consider to be "major" releases (each contained major new features and API differences from the previous version, and have multiple bug/security releases, 4.6.1, 4.6,2 etc). This was changed prior to the Drupal 5 release (http://drupal.org/node/85943). It seems like these should be listed in the version block, perhaps with a footnote to the above link to explain the change in the numbering sequence. Grugnog (talk) 19:35, 29 November 2012 (UTC)