The primary guidance for web 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 (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) on a global basis are the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, commonly referred to as WCAGWCAG WCAG is an acronym for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. These guidelines are helping make sure the internet is accessible to all people no matter how they would need to access the internet (screen-reader, keyboard only, etc) https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/.. WordPress requires that all content meet WCAG guidelines, but also pushes to provide accessibility beyond that minimum whenever possible.
WordPress Accessibility Coding Standard
All new or updated code released in WordPress must conform with the WCAG 2.2 guidelines at level AA.
The documentation accessibility and WCAG is now published on the WP Accessibility Knowledge Base with:
Note: The documentation in the WP Accessibility Knowledge Base is in development and will be moved to develop.wordpress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ when it’s finished.