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As accessibility deadlines approach, a DrupalCon Chicago 2026 session examines how government and university teams can move beyond compliance-driven approaches and integrate accessibility into design, development, and content workflows. Drawing on real project experience, the session positions accessibility as an ongoing practice shaped by systems, not a final checkpoint. ...more

Matthew Saunders will present a talk on neuro-inclusive system design at DrupalCon Chicago 2026, focusing on how organisational structures create friction for neurodivergent individuals. The presentation outlines practical changes to hiring, team operations, and leadership practices, positioning neuroinclusion as a systems-level design problem rather than a policy concern. ...more

A DrupalCon Chicago session titled “Future-Proofing Accessibility: Strategies for Government & University Platforms” will examine practical approaches to accessibility implementation as compliance requirements evolve in the United States. Speakers from Lullabot will present lessons from government and university projects, highlighting Drupal’s accessibility capabilities, common pitfalls, and strategies for building compliant digital services. ...more

Accessibility has long been part of Drupal’s core philosophy, yet accessibility audits continue to uncover recurring issues across many Drupal websites. Findings from the DrupalFit Challenge Vienna Edition show that even professionally built Drupal projects can struggle with problems such as insufficient colour contrast, missing alternative text, and improper heading structure. As regulatory requirements expand and digital services become more essential, accessibility reviews are becoming increasingly important for Drupal teams working across government, education, healthcare, and enterprise platforms. The audit results offer practical insight into where development teams can strengthen accessibility practices across Drupal projects. ...more

A decade after the European Commission began consolidating hundreds of its websites on Drupal, the conversation around open source adoption has shifted from technology choice to institutional practice. In a session titled “Using Drupal Doesn’t Make You Open Source,” architect consultant Adam Nagy will reflect on how one of the world’s largest Drupal platforms moved from using open source software to contributing back to it. Scheduled at DrupalCon Chicago 2026, the talk examines the governance structures, organisational culture, and shared tooling that enabled collaboration across public-sector teams and turned internal development into reusable community contributions. ...more

The Drupal Coffee Exchange will take place during DrupalCon Chicago 2026, continuing a community tradition that began at DrupalCon Seattle in 2019 and has since appeared at Drupal camps and conferences worldwide. The informal Birds of a Feather session invites attendees to bring a bag of whole-bean coffee from a local roaster and exchange it with someone from another region. Over time, the gathering has become known as a relaxed space where Drupal contributors share stories and build connections beyond code. ...more

Senior application architect Peter Wolanin will present a session on Drupal’s plugin system at DrupalCamp NJ 2026, explaining how the plugin API enables reusable and extensible functionality in Drupal projects. The talk will introduce how plugins are structured across Drupal core and configuration, along with examples showing how developers can identify and create them in their own code. Wolanin also shared what attendees can expect from the session and why understanding the plugin system remains an important skill for Drupal developers. ...more

A forthcoming session at DrupalCamp NJ 2026 will offer the first public look at the 3.x rewrite of the accessibility module Editoria11y. Accessibility developer John Jameson explains how the project has evolved through collaboration with the Sa11y project, merging test suites and introducing new backend and frontend capabilities. The session will examine the technical changes behind the rewrite, the development of community-supported add-ons, and the broader roadmap for expanding the accessibility toolkit into a more comprehensive open-source governance suite. ...more

DrupalCamp NJ 2026 will take place from 12 March 2026 to 14 March 2026 at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, bringing together Drupal developers, site builders, and community members for three days of training, sessions, and collaboration. Among the scheduled presentations is “Governance You Can See: Embedding Content Rules Directly Into Drupal,” a session by Nathan Wallace that explores how governance guidance—often stored in documents and policies—can be embedded directly within Drupal’s publishing experience to help teams maintain content quality, accountability, and editorial clarity. ...more

Staging-server bottlenecks often slow releases, compress QA into the final days of a sprint, and leave stakeholders reviewing work too late to give meaningful feedback. In this DrupalCon North America 2026 session, Jasmyne Epps of Digital Services Georgia and James Sansbury of Tugboat explain how the State of Georgia redesigned QA and UAT for GovHub by moving testing and stakeholder review directly into pull requests. The result is a workflow that helps teams catch issues earlier, collaborate continuously, and scale delivery across more than 80 state agency websites. ...more