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Changed accessibility meeting times!
Because the regular 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) meeting was at the same…
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This week in WordPress Accessibility, October 2, 2017
Transcript in Slack Labels when multiple same landmark roles in the same page Related tickets: #42056: Twenty Seventeen: role=”complementary” are missing labels #42057: Add ability to pass a label for the element returned by get_search_form() This issue applies only to roles that are also landmark regions. They’re reported by screen readers as navigational element and, when…
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This week in WordPress Accessibility, September 4th, 2017
Transcript of the meeting Agenda ARIA roles in Underscores theme. CodeMirror. Automated 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,…
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Accessibility work at WordCamp Nijmegen
Date: September 1 – 2, 2017 Website: 2017.nijmegen.wordcamp.org Twitter: #WCNMGN, @WordCampNmgn @tacoverdo announced at the start of WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Nijmegen…
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This week in WordPress Accessibility, August 28th, 2017
Transcript of the meeting Agenda Handbook, progress so far CodeMirror 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/ Open floor CodeMirror was…
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Accessibility work at WordCamp Brighton
Date: August 18 – 20, 2017 Website: 2017.brighton.wordcamp.org Twitter: #WCBTN, #WordCampBTN and @WordCampBTN Talks about 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…
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Accessibility tickets, tasks, and reports
WordPress uses several systems for tracking issues. Issues in WordPress itself are tracked in core ticket tracking. Issues with the network of sites at WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well…
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Get involved
Members of the Make WordPress 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) Team are volunteers…
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Accessibility standards and best practices
What are the best practices for an accessible WordPress website, theme or pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and…
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Community Conduct Project – Kick off meeting scheduled for 17:00 UTC on the 5th September 2017
Community Conduct Project – Kick off meeting scheduled for 17:00 UTC on the 5th September 2017