Editoria11y 1.x introduced automated inline alerts for accessibility issues. Content authors did not need to be taught how to use it, or be reminded to visit reports. It was pretty sweet.
Editoria11y 2.x focused on building out site-wide dismissals and reports, adding an as-you-type checker, and supporting its Drupal CMS integration.
Editoria11y 3.x is focused on creating a turnkey, open-source quality assurance suite. The initial release will:
- Add new optional tests for code issues, readability and color contrast.
- Allow for "split configuration," showing different alerts to different roles.
- Introduce site-wide dismissal buttons for certain issues.
- Add dashboard maintenance tools, including a site-wide crawler.
- Expose more data to Views for custom filters and reports.
But more than anything, it sets up the code framework needed to develop commercial-grade quality assurance features; things like inline highlighting of broken links, a wizard for adding flagged words and custom checks, task assignments, email alerts, command line tools, perhaps even multi-site reporting dashboards.
We will demo the new testing and reporting features, explore ways to get the most out of the new configuration options, and discuss how the community can help direct and support the roadmap.
