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WCAG 2.1 Accessibility Evaluation

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As a member of the W3C Maps for HTML Community Group I set out to briefly evaluate the state of accessibility in popular web maps tools for the 2020 W3C/OGC Joint Workshop Series on Maps for the Web which included MapBox GL JS, thus the assessments largely apply to MapLibre as well. Some fixes were introduced in mapbox/mapbox-gl-js#9991 which MapLibre inherited. 👍🏼

The evaluation report lives here: https://github.com/Malvoz/web-maps-wcag-evaluation/blob/master/README.md

I'm hopeful that MapLibre will strive to build inclusive components for an accessible experience for its users. I suggest adding an "accessibility" label to issues relating to this topic, to encourage contributors to think about accessibility (and for issue tracking purposes of course).

Accessibility can be hard sometimes, consider adding a section about accessibility in the CONTRIBUTING.md document to advocate for building accessible content, perhaps including useful resources (something a long the lines of what I proposed for Leaflet in Leaflet/Leaflet#7277).

MapLibre is a great initiative!

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@Malvoz was this issue covered by the other issues you opened?

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@HarelM Yes mostly.

In relation to the report (although most issues were originally identified for MapBox which MapLibre inherited):

There are certainly other issues, but I think this is a good start to improve the accessibility of MapLibre maps.