Source: Make WordPress: Accessibility

With WordPress 3.5 due out in the next few weeks, has there been any work done to increase coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities.…

We’ve now completed the draft Theme Accessibility Audit Criteria and have settled on a proposed new theme tag: accessibility-ready. We’re now discussing how the new 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.…

Check out Joe Dolson’s new WP Accessibility Plugin. #plugin

As part of the new User handbook being created over at Supporting Everything WordPress, I’ve put together an introduction to web accessibility. This is intended to be far less technical and in-depth than its companion page in the Codex. The intent is to get site authors thinking about how they add content rather than just…

I’ve just been mercilessly editing the Codex Accessibility page. The aim is to try and create something that is suitable for non-technical site owners. The page was previously pretty technical and loaded with too many (often broken or outdated) resources. So far, I’ve covered usage of headings, links, images, color and general readability with some…

Using a tabindex of -1 is (in my books) a fairly old trick to try and drop elements out of an existing tabindex order. But I suspect it’s a trick may have outlived its usefulness and may behave inconsistently across different user agents.What are your thoughts/experiences? Do we have more consistent best practice techniques that…

@esmi the tabindex attributes are still needed on the toolbar as the HTMLHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites. for it is outputted at the bottom but it’s shown at the top of the screen. All…

There are several new accessibility tickets on trac dealing with the use of “tabindex” and other 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…

How accessible is the WordPress CMS for a blind content manager

Some interesting issues brought up by a blind user on the wordpress,org support forums: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-dantotube-some-accessibility-fix-suggestions #3-3-2