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

• UI Suite Initiative
• UI Suite YouTube
• UI Suite Slack

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:
  • Disclosure Menu
• 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:
  • 29 sites
• 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