Source: Make WordPress: Accessibility

About the testers: we still get new testers who want to join the group, we have 54 testers now, about 20 of them join the tests every week actively. So that’s going well. Last week we tested the patches for: #31143 – Login error handling accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products,…

Tested on WordPress 4.2-alpha Summary of the result at the bottom of this post. Testers: Kim van Iersel Gabriela Nino de Rivera Tina Tedesco Malgorzata Mlynarczyk Greg Wocher Jeff de Wit Petra de Jong Test: Go to Dashboard > Plugins > Add New Add a new pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing…

Related ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/30486 Result: Taborder footer is fixed, see also the summary at the bottom of this post. Further: A lot of other issues where found using the table with a screen reader/keyboard. We asked the testers to log into the test server with a network install and check the label-input relation on pages like: Dashboard All…

Related ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/30914 Result: Taborder footer is fixed, see also the summary at the bottom of this post. Further: A lot of other issues where found using the table with a screen reader/keyboard. We asked the testers: Go to Dashboard – Posts – All posts On this page there is a table with the current…

Testing We had a report by Rian Rietveld on testing results. Things are going very well. Rian said: “I’m getting test results back on the tab order of the post table, it seems to work ok, but they found a ton of other problems, I have to check the current tickets and open new if…

About a month ago, I announced that work on an accessible theme pattern library had started. Progress has moved forward steadily since then. Six people have volunteered to create patterns and code has been written! 🙂 The volunteers are myself, @cheffheid, @joedolson, @chrisdc1, @arush and @rianrietveld. You can see the list of patterns on this…

WordPress introduced the class .screen-reader-text in 2009. Since then, it’s been the canonical way that WordPress handles any HTMLHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. output that is targeted at screen readers. Introducing new HTML in…

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) test results of the new Press This bookmarklet. This…

Last week @afercia and @trishacupra did an a11yAccessibility 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) test…

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) test results of the new CustomizerCustomizer Tool built…