Source: Make WordPress: Accessibility

  • Amanda’s Thoughts On “Gutenberg and the WordPress of Tomorrow”

    Good post by Amanda Rush (@arush), about the need for good documentation and manuals for 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.…

  • Contributor day at WordCamp US 2017

    The 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) table was divided in two parts as…

  • This week in WordPress Accessibility, November 27, 2017

    Weekly meeting Transcript meeting in Slack Handbook Should we  use <pre><code> or <pre> or shortcodes like [ php ] for displaying code examples? The shortcodeShortcode A shortcode is a placeholder used within a WordPress post, page, or widget to insert a form or function generated by a plugin in a specific location on your site.…

  • Screen reader user experience with Gutenberg

    The last weeks we let the WPA11y test team try out 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/. Responses Working with…

  • X-post: Recap of WordCamp.org ticket scrub on November 21st

    X-post from +make.wordpress.org/meta: Recap of WordCamp.org ticket scrub on November 21st

  • This week in WordPress Accessibility, November 20, 2017

    Weekly meeting Transcript meeting in Slack The handbook Things go well, we are adding new content every week on the handbook – best practices. @mercime will help with the documentation, starting with forms. GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content,…

  • This week in WordPress Accessibility, November 13, 2017

    Transcript in Slack Planning and focus for WP 5.0 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 an fixing Finishing the…

  • The CSS class screen-reader-text

    WordPress introduced the class .screen-reader-text in 2009 and extended the use in 2015. Joe Dolson wrote a good post about the extended use of the screen-reader-text class in WordPress 4.2. Use The screen-reader-text class is used: to hide text visually that is primarily needed for screen reader users. for skip links to ensure keyboard navigation visibility…

  • Skip links

    Navigation links, search forms, social media links, or other elements commonly appear on the page before the main content. When navigating using the keyboard, it can be frustrating to get to the main content of a page because of these elements if you need to tab through everything on each page. A skip link provides…

  • This week in WordPress Accessibility, October 24, 2017

    Transcript in Slack Please note: the times of our meetings have changed. Handbook Because of work and holidays, the last month not much work was done on the handbook. But as from now we will pick up writing again. The goal still is to have the handbook finished mid March 2018 (with all the text…