My presentation on the history and usage of Django Uni-Form.

1. Django Uni-Form

2. Who am I?

3. Who am I?
Daniel Greenfeld

4. Who am I?
Daniel Greenfeld
NASA Geek

5. Who am I?
Daniel Greenfeld
NASA Geek
Pinax Core Developer

6. Who am I?
Daniel Greenfeld
NASA Geek
Pinax Core Developer
Djangonaut!

7. What is Section 508?
In 1998 the US Congress amended the Rehabilitation Act to
require Federal agencies to make their electronic and
information technology accessible to people with disabilities.
Section 508 was enacted to eliminate barriers in information
technology, to make available new opportunities for people with
disabilities, and to encourage development of technologies that
will help achieve these goals. The law applies to all Federal
agencies when they develop, procure, maintain, or use
electronic and information technology. Under Section 508 (29
U.S.C. § 794d), agencies must give disabled employees and
members of the public access to information that is comparable
to the access available to others.
-Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_508)

8. What is Section 508?

9. What is Section 508?
Rules for making technology theoretically accessible by
individuals with disability.

10. What is Section 508?
Rules for making technology theoretically accessible by
individuals with disability.
Easy to implement if you know how.

11. What is Section 508?
Rules for making technology theoretically accessible by
individuals with disability.
Easy to implement if you know how.
Unfortunately doesn't actually force software to be
accessible to the disabled.

12. What is Section 508?
Rules for making technology theoretically accessible by
individuals with disability.
Easy to implement if you know how.
Unfortunately doesn't actually force software to be
accessible to the disabled.
Enforceable across all government agencies or
organizations accepting money from government agencies.

13. Why do we care?

14. Why do we care?
US Government work requires it.

15. Why do we care?
US Government work requires it.
Disability software is said to be a $170 billion a year
industry.

16. Why do we care?
US Government work requires it.
Disability software is said to be a $170 billion a year
industry.
Open source tends to support accessibility/usability well.

17. Why do we care?
US Government work requires it.
Disability software is said to be a $170 billion a year
industry.
Open source tends to support accessibility/usability well.
Its the right thing to do!

18. Lets get technical

19. Tables are for tabular data

20. In Section 508, most tabular forms are forbidden!

21. In Section 508, some tabular forms are allowed

22. Django forms rock!

23. Normal forms rock!

24. Model forms rock!

26. Forms as paragraphs

27. Forms as unordered lists

28. Out of the box pretty Django forms are tabular

29. Django forms summary
Native views of Django forms can be Section 508 compliant
Hard to do form-style layouts with paragraphs
Harder to do form-style layouts with unordered lists
Table based formats are mostly verboten
Django docs do show how to do div based forms

30. Spacebook

31. Spacebook FORMS
FORMS
FORMS
FORMS
FORMS
FORMS
FORMS
FORMS FORMS
FORMS
Too many forms! FORMS
FORMS

32. Django Uni-Form =

33. Django forms docs on divs +

34. Simple Django custom filter +

35. Dragan Babić's Uni-Form library

36. Django Uni-Form =
Django forms docs + template tag +
Uni-Form css/js forms library

37. http://github.com/pydanny/django-uni-form

38. Who uses it?

40. Basic Usage

41. Intermediate Usage I

42. Intermediate Usage II

43. Layout Controls - The Form

44. Layout Controls - The Controls

45. Layout Controls - The Template

46. The Future of
Django Uni-Form

47. Contributing Back

48. http://github.com/pydanny/django-uni-form