Source: Make WordPress: Accessibility

  • IRC Meeting Agenda: 13/02/13

    Is there anything we need for tomorrow’s meeting agenda? Or should we just make this a “report & update” meeting? #group, #irc, #meetup

  • Post Revisions in 3.6

    The Post Revisions are currently being overhauled for WordPress 3.6. The team responsible are at the concept stage & they’ve asked asked us to provide feedback now on their current mock-ups. I have already raised the point elsewhere that perhaps a red/green combination isn’t the best of choices but I do think that the potential…

  • IRC Meeting: 6 Feb 2013

    Thanks to everyone who managed to make the IRC meeting on #wordpress-ui yesterday.  We had a very productive discussion and — despite the entertainment provided by way of my terrible iPad typing — took the first steps towards organising the group along more formal lines. @GrahamArmfield will be looking after TracTrac Trac is the place…

  • IRC: Proposed Schedule

    Venue: #wordpress-ui Server: irc.freenode.net or via freenode web chat. Time: Wednesdays, 20:00 UTC Meetings should take no more than 1 hour — possibly less. If anyone is available today, I should be around at that time. First official meeting will be February 13. First orders of business: Define this group’s role in the overall development…

  • Are Trac Tickets Still the Best Way to get Accessibility Improvements in WordPress?

    Last year, as a result of a number of tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. tickets raised by myself and others, a number of accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities.…

  • IRC Meetups

    Most of the other WordPress groups have weekly meetings via IRC. Do you think this would be viable option for this group too? Does anyone have any difficulties accessing IRC? If we did have regular meetups, I’m assuming weekdays would be best — for half an hour or so between 19:00 and 21:00 GMT? Thoughts…

  • Don’t “Let It Snow ” How Autoplays Can…

    Don’t “Let It Snow.” How Autoplays Can Disable Visitors to Your Website #animation, #sound

  • Aaron Jorbin is suggesting that the new Twenty…

    Aaron Jorbin is suggesting that the new Twenty Thirteen should be designed and built “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…

  • User Videos – An Accessibility Angle

    Over the last few months WP dev lessbloat has done a series of videos where he has invited in ‘real-life’ users to try out various features of the WordPress backend – and has videoed the experience. I’ve watched many of these videos and read the transcripts of the interactions and they are a really great…

  • Accessibillty Questions on the Support Forums

    I’ve been trying to think of how we can provide better support for theme devs, pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP…