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The CSS class screen-reader-text
WordPress introduced the class .screen-reader-text in 2009 and extended the use in 2015. Joe Dolson wrote a good post about the extended use of the screen-reader-text class in WordPress 4.2. Use The screen-reader-text class is used: to hide text visually that is primarily needed for screen reader users. for skip links to ensure keyboard navigation visibility…
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Skip links
Navigation links, search forms, social media links, or other elements commonly appear on the page before the main content. When navigating using the keyboard, it can be frustrating to get to the main content of a page because of these elements if you need to tab through everything on each page. A skip link provides…
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Get Involved
Welcome and thank you for helping us market WordPress and its wonderful community! We’re so glad you have chosen to be part of the Global Marketing Team. There are so many ways to contribute in the team. At a contributor event, occasionally on particular tasks or more regularly. The Marketing team promotes WordPress to current…
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Good Practices & Resources
Please use the menu on the left hand side to read through this section of the handbook. Items on tools like GitHub and Trello are being updated. To-do
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Plugin/Theme Authors Guide
Interested in getting your project translated? This page will show you, as the theme or plugin author, some tips for working with translators in the Polyglot community. If you are looking for a technical localization guide, please see the meta and plugin handbooks. If you are looking to request PTE status, please see Project Translation…
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Handbook
The Marketing team focuses on making WordPress marketable in all sorts of contexts, from the WordPress.org side all the way to core and the wider community. The Marketing team promotes WordPress to current and future users and contributors. We create and amplify campaigns to support the growth of the WordPress project. When does the Global Marketing Team meet? The…
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Block Editor
The WordPress Block Editor (codename “Gutenberg”) is the new editor for WordPress, with the goal of creating a better new post and page editing experience that makes it easy for anyone to create rich post layouts. The Block Editor documentation is published at https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/ Refer to the latest Block Editor Documentation on how to contribute to…
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Accessibility tickets, tasks, and reports
WordPress uses several systems for tracking issues. Issues in WordPress itself are tracked in core ticket tracking. Issues with the network of sites at WordPress.org are tracked in the meta ticket tracker or in various independent repositories in the WordPress Github organization. Issues in the development of the block and site editors are tracked in…
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Get involved
Members of the Make WordPress Accessibility Team are volunteers working on improvements to accessibility in WordPress for people with disabilities. Not everybody contributing to WordPress is technically minded; in fact, everyone connected with accessibility can contribute to the Accessibility Team. We particularly want to hear from people who are regular users of assistive technology (AT),…
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Accessibility standards and best practices
What are the best practices for an accessible WordPress website, theme or plugin? The documentation about accessibility itself is now published on the WP Accessibility Knowledge Base. There you can find information about: How to start with accessibility The accessibility-ready program Accessibility standards and best practice Accessibility testing WordPress and Accessibility This documentation is additional…