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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.org are tracked in the meta ticket tracker or in various independent repositories in the WordPress Github organization. Issues in the development of the block and site editors are tracked in…
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Get involved
Members of the Make WordPress Accessibility Team are volunteers working on improvements to accessibility in WordPress for people with disabilities. Not everybody contributing to WordPress is technically minded; in fact, everyone connected with accessibility can contribute to the Accessibility Team. We particularly want to hear from people who are regular users of assistive technology (AT),…
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Accessibility standards and best practices
What are the best practices for an accessible WordPress website, theme or plugin? The documentation about accessibility itself is now published on the WP Accessibility Knowledge Base. There you can find information about: How to start with accessibility The accessibility-ready program Accessibility standards and best practice Accessibility testing WordPress and Accessibility This documentation is additional…
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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