Today we are talking about web design and development, from a group of people with one thing in common… We love Drupal. This is episode #435 UI Suite initiative.
For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/435
Topics
- Elevator Pitch
- What do you mean by implementing design systems
- Is this to thel themers or site builders
- What is the expected outcome
- The project page says initiative, but this is not on the community initiatives page, is this an intitiative
- How does this implement public design systems
- Does this work with Single Directory Components
- Youtube Channel
- Getting involved
- Roadmap
- Use cases
- Do you see this going into core
Resources
Guests
Pierre Dureau - LinkedIn pdureau
Hosts
Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
MOTW
Correspondent
Chris Wells - chrisfromredfin
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted simple but accessible dropdown navigation on your Drupal website? There’s a module for that.
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in Nov 2022 by Jay Huskins of Redfin Solutions
- Versions available: 2.1.5 which works with Drupal 9 and 10
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained, most recent commit is less than a month ago
- No Test coverage at this point
- Documentation - via README.md
- Number of open issues: 2, neither of which are bugs
- Usage stats:
- Maintainer(s):
- Jay Huskins, with support from Redfin
- Module features and usage
- Provides a new menu block that includes markup for disclosure buttons, that make it easier for users on assistive devices to navigate drop-down menus
- Activating the button will toggle the visibility of nested menu items
- Also includes ARIA labels to provide clarity around what the buttons do
- Worth mentioning that Drupal’s Olivero theme also includes disclosure buttons in its mWe’ll also cover Disclosure Menu as our module of the week.
- Guest Introenus, but there isn’t a straightforward way to pull the menus implemented there into your custom theme
- Also had a write-up in the Drupal advent calendar we talked about last month, so listeners can also check that out if they want more information