WordCamp Europe happened on June 4-6, ’26 in Krakow, Poland.
At Contributor Day the accessibility team had 3 full tables. One table focused on testing themes for the accessibility-ready tag, one on fixing issues in Gutenberg and core, and one on reviewing the documentation in the WordPress Accessibility knowledge base. During the WordCamp, Joe and Rian had numerous discussions with attendees about how to optimize the accessibility-ready tag documentation and other documentation on wpaccessibility.org.
Testing themes
Amber Hinds (@alh0319) wrote a very helpful document with step by step instructions on how to test for the accessibility-ready tag. The team intends to re-use this document and add it to our handbook in the section “Get involved“.
8 Contributors tested and notified theme authors about issues in their themes, working on reviews for several additional themes.
Core and Gutenberg issues
5 Contributors worked on patches for two core tickets, updated numerous issues, and provided several tickets with feedback.
Reviewing Documentation
8 Contributors reviewed documentation on wpaccessibility.org. These reviews are bundled and documented in the GitHub Tracking issue Feedback contributors at the contributor day WCEU’26. We will create separate issues the next few weeks so we can start working on them.
Thank you!
Thank you Claire Brotherton (@abrightclearweb), Jeff Chi (@krokodok), Łukasz Zygiel (@lukaszygiel), Remo (@Remo), Maja Benke (@majabenke), Veera (@veerap), Maud Leray @mleraygp), Anne-Mieke Bovelett (@annebovelett), Tibi Buzdugan (@tibibuzdugan), Simon Duduica (@simondud), Carolina Romo (@corazondejaguar), Željko Milošević (@zex2911), Mira Hiltunen (@mirasus), JB Audras (@audrasjb), Francisco Guarnieri (@franciscovitamina), Ankit Kumar Shah (@ankitkumarshah) and others for joining and helping at the accessibility tables
If your name and handle are missing from the list, comment below, so it can be added!
Useful discussions during the other WordCamp days
- Information about the
accessibility-readytag primarily focuses on testing. Jessica Lyschik (@luminuu) wants to add information on how to implement theaccessibility-readytag, to better support theme developers. Related GitHub issue: Enhance accessibility-ready guidelines with classic vs. block theme information and examples how to achieve the guidelines. - Sami Keijonen (@samikeijonen) wants to help reviewing PRs in GitHun for new documentation
- Joe and Rian sat down with the Playground team and helped them on their way with how to test for accessibility. We realized that the documentation about automated testing needs an update, as the info we have now is outdated.
- Joe and Rian talked to Milana Cap (@milana_cap) about core documentation. Rian is going to write a short section about web accessibility with useful links for an accessibility Documentation section on wp.org
- JB Audras (@audrasjb) is translating relevant info from the Knowledge Base into French for fr.wordpress.org/support. This may be something to discuss with other local communities.
The attending members of the team came back with a ton of ideas, to be followed up in the next months. Thanks everyone!
Reviewed by @joedolson