Source: Make WordPress: Accessibility

After a few months of having a test session on Monday’s we gathered a group of people discussing and fixing tickets and patches. But limiting the testing to a weekly one hour session turns out to be not pracical. Not eveyone has the time to be there and work on that exact hour, we are…

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The support team’s weekly meetup today invited representatives from 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…

We want to make creating accessibility-ready themes as easy possible. To do that, we’re working on building a library of accessible patterns for themes. That way, theme authors can learn about and implement accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept…

Here we are again, at the beginning of another great rendition of WordPress! As is normal at the beginning of a cycle, here are a few big issues that the 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…

We’ve been working with the Theme Review team to coordinate sharing more information about making themes accessible, with an eye towards the goals in our Accessible Themes Roadmap. The first step in that roadmap has been published today, Three Easy tips for Accessible Theming, published at the Make/Themes blog. Read it, share it, and most…

The weekly test session on Monday will be postponed until Monday January 5 2015.

We had a great meeting to discuss the future of theme accessibility. You can review the complete transcript of the chat in Slack. We discussed many of the aspects of what it will take to make accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with…

At 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. San Francisco, several members of the community including members of the WordPress AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened…

Initial Proposed Timeline What When Initial content (3 initial steps) December 12 2014 Published Dec. 15, 2014 All resource copy written Late January 2015 Code library finished Note April 2015 All accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible…