Source: Make WordPress: Accessibility

Focus on 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, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) The accessibility team met today…

Can anyone in the group take a look at the issues raised in this forum thread? https://wordpress.org/support/topic/almost-incomplete-inaccessibility-in-wordpress-38-using-various-screen-readers

I’ve created all new tickets for each file referenced from the original remove title attributes trac ticket (https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/24766). I originally split it up into 17 separate tickets, but closed 3 of them already, because they had already been committed into 3.8 or earlier. I’ve added comments and/or patches, as relevant, on all of the remaining…

tl; dr: I think the team can prioritize its time and efforts better, especially around new development. At this point you’ve all probably seen https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/26527 If this had been raised a week ago, would have been no problem. Plenty of time to create and test a fix. The metaMeta Meta is a term that refers…

Discussion about Analysis of what gets into the alt and title attributes when adding an image into a page/post by @grahamarmfield. Excellent work. Discussion about what is needed to move Create new tag: accessible-ready @sams suggested that we should find an owner and get it in as soon as 3.9 development opens. He also suggested…

I’ve added two patches to tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. ticket #25459 which solve the meaningful links issue. They use a new function which employs the aria-hidden attribute to allow meaningful text for screen readers to sit alongside shorter text for sighted users,…

Analysis of what ends up in alt and title attributes when placing an image into a page or post.

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). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) statement is now added to the Codex…

The time of the weekly Wednesday 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 meeting…

Thanks to @grahamarmfield for the new welcome message on Make WordPress Accessible and for the new page Get Involved with the Make WordPress Accessible Team. We have a draft of theme check Accessibility Guidelines and need a tag to attach to themes that make it through the voluntary process to be approved as accessible themes.…