Source: Make WordPress: Accessibility

It seems there are an increasing number of areas where dialogs or popup panels are used to alert the user about occurrences and perhaps demand some action from them. Examples include the Autosave and Post Locking dialogs #23697 and Login Expiration #23295 – as pointed out by Joe Dolson. Within #23697 @azaozz responded to some…

You might want to consider installing the MP6 plugin to get a sneak preview of the new user interface. Thus far, I’ve noted 3 areas of concern: The contrast on “Collapse Menu” needs to be pushed up a little to #888 Post revision comparisons. Not sure I’m comfortable with red-on-red and green-on-green. At present, the…

We had a little mix-up with the meeting time this week, due to the change to Daylight Savings Time in the US, so this meeting report may be a little shorter than usual. However, the weekly meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized…

If anybody has a chance to take a look at the progress on autosave and post locking that would be valuable – I have some concerns about whether the context changes when sessions have expired will be announced, but haven’t had time to test it at all. Ticket 23295

I think I’ve finally finished! *gasp* Thank you to everyone who provided earlier feedback and jogged my memory. Is there anything on the completed page I need to re-word or explain in more detail? As previously, please post all feedback here rather than on the draft page itself. #documention, #theme

Another small but lively meeting. We also had the opportunity to welcome our newest member, @shaun_10up – a relatively new coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. contributor. I think we’ll be keeping him busy over the next few weeks! 🙂 Custom menus Thanks to…

As part of the larger WordPress documentation project, I’ve put together a very rough first draft of an accessibility section for the theme developers’ handbook. It still needs a lot of fleshing out as I’m approaching this from the perspective of someone who doesn’t know anything about web accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers…

Following up on the original post about the Add Media panel, here’s a quick rundown of the functionality issues with screen readers: Cannot select images from Media Library. Media Library images display in list either without description/title (IE) or only the first image is seen within the list (Firefox). A newly uploaded image can be…

As usual, we had a lively meeting. Thanks to all who attended. Custom Menus 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…

I’ve raised this post as I feel that the issue of 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) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive…