Source: Make WordPress: Accessibility

Summary Results below tested against WCAG 2.0 AA standards. Overall, the interface performed well, and the majority of fixes should be fairly easy to make in the long run. Tested using Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Voiceover and Wave (http://wave.webaim.org/toolbar/) on 3.8.1 running Twenty Fourteen with the plugin installed. One “High” rated issue. Four “Medium” rated issues.…

Admin Screen Audit We continue to test 3.8.1 admin screens for keyboard 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,…

Want to participate in reviewing WordPress themes for 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).…

I’ve been doing some 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) testing with version 0.4.0…

Testing Continues Discussion about testing continued this week with a question about generating tickets to address test findings. We will not pursue creating tickets until we have completed testing all admin screens. Reference was made to outstanding accessibility tickets and how they can be viewed. We will be looking for patterns in addition to specific…

Ticket Activity Report @grahamarmfield reported progress on ticket 26602: Insufficient information for screen readers in themes.php. “On the new Themes page in trunk, it is now possible to tab to each of the themes within the list of themes found. However for screen readers there may be no audible feedback to tell the user which…

Testing 3.8 Admin Screens The team discussed our current project, keyboard testing of 3.8 admin screens. There is now a new page on Make WordPress Accessible named Testing, and a sub-page under that named 3.8 Admin Screens Results. The testing page contains a list of 3.8 admin screens and a sample results table. The results…

Keyboard Functionality Test Results Test Guide Page Name Goes Here # Issue Standard Severity Recommendation 1 Keyboard All functionality of the content is operable through a keyboard interface. 2.1.1 High, Med, Good 2 No Keyboard Trap Ensure that content does not “trap” keyboard focus within subsections. 2.1.2 3 Bypass Blocks A mechanism is available to…

Workflow Redux In 1982, in his Frank and Ernest comic strip, Bob Thaves wrote about Fred Astaire: “Sure he was great, but don’t forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did, backwards…and in high heels.” Doing the accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people…

Happy New Year to the entire WordPress community! Accessible IRC Clients Thanks to the team members who joined us today, and to @grahamarmfield who reported in while traveling. Just as we got underway we had a question on Twitter asking which IRC clients are accessible plus we found out later that one of our team…