Source: Make WordPress: Accessibility

  • Report accessibility issues

    How to report an accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) issue Before adding a…

  • Accessibility of Gutenberg, the state of play

    TL;DR How accessible is GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ in its current state (version 2.4)? To answer this the…

  • Accessibility team meeting, March 26, 2018

    GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ testing @joedolson was at then CSUN conference last week and asked Léonie Watson and…

  • This week in WordPress Accessibility, March 12, 2018

    We had four items on the agenda: Handbook. GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ and accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to…

  • This week in WordPress Accessibility, March 5, 2018

    WPa1y team meeting Transcript in Slack Handbook Work goes well. @samikeijonen is working on a post about SVG, @rianrietveld is writing about wp.a11y.speak(). GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to…

  • Gutenberg Accessibility Testing

    Please help us improve the WordPress editor! Install the Gutenberg plugin to start testing. You can find more information about GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather…

  • This week in WordPress Accessibility, February 26, 2018

    Transcript of a meeting in Slack. About placeholders In ticket 40460 there is discussion should placeholders be added to wp_login_form(). @afercia have written good summary in the comments why in this case placeholders would not be a good idea. Therefore we decided to close the ticket. But discussion can continue in the ticket and valid…

  • This week in WordPress Accessibility, February 12, 2018

    Transcript of a meeting in Slack. Handbook @rianrietveld and @samikeijonen worked on AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example,…

  • This week in WordPress Accessibility, December 18, 2017

    Weekly meeting Transcript meeting in Slack Handbook Progress of the “best practices” in the handbook according to @samikeijonen : “It’s a bullet that’s moving fast in the right direction, I’m confident about it”. Marketing handbook: we working with the marketing team to set up a plan. Roadmap first release March 1. After that we can…

  • This week in WordPress Accessibility, December 11, 2017

    Weekly meeting Transcript meeting in Slack Handbook The writing continues steadily, we still hope to finish the best practices mid March. In the meantime we need to set up a marketing plan for the handbook. @samikeijonen and @postphotos want to work in this, with the help of the Marketing team (@mcdwayne, @gidgey and @anafransilva). Thoughts…