Source: Make WordPress: Accessibility

Just a quick post to remind everyone that we are still holding a weekly IRC meeting in #wordpress-ui every Wednesday at 19:00 UTC. The meeting on May 1 covered the variations in form handling across different screen readers as well as a recent issue reported with the Jetpack pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of…

We had another lively IRC meeting on Wednesday. 3.6 Post Formats It was previously decided that both the video and audio post formats could benefit from an ability to add links to captions (for videos) or transcripts (for audio files) and some preliminary investigations were started to look at the possibility of submitting patches. However,…

In pretty much every theme, there is something that looks like this: <a href=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>” title=”<?php echo esc_attr( sprintf( __( ‘Permalink to %s’, ‘twentythirteen’ ), the_title_attribute( ‘echo=0’ ) ) ); ?>” rel=”bookmark”><?php the_title(); ?></a> My question: Is “Permalink to (title of post)” a WordPress anachronism that, by being a redundant title attribute, actually harms…

Just submitted: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/24148. Comments welcome. #a11y, #comment-form, #patch

I’ve updated the Theme Review guidelines for Accessibility again. This update takes into a consideration a number of suggestions and questions from Chip Bennett regarding the understanding of issues and how to resolve them. Among the changes: Images now state that decorative images must be included with CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style…

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A few of us took part in the IRC chat yesterday (see transcript here). Not surprisingly the main subject was the Add Media Panel 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)…

I’ve been chatting with Chip Bennett via the Theme Review list about the Theme Audit guidelines. With his feedback (which was from the theme author and reviewer perspective, and very valuable) and the feedback from the comments on my previous post, I’ll be working on the next version with a variety of changes of various…

The betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close in look, feel and function to the final product; however, design changes often occur as part of the process. version of…

Hey, all. I’ve updated the theme auditing guidelines and they have now been added to the theme reviewer’s documentation. Take a look at the requirements for the #accessibility-ready theme tag and comment back here with any suggestions or changes. Note that these guidelines are in addition to the rest of the theme guidelines, and there…