With:
- the updated accessibility-ready requirements for themes,
- work in progress on the documentation,
- our plans for the contributor day at WordCamp Europe.
The new accessibility-ready requirements for themes
The main work in May on wpaccessibility.org was adding and updating the new accessibility-ready requirements for themes, by Amber Hinds (@alh0319) and Joe Dolson (@joedolson):
- Guidelines for the WordPress accessibility-ready tag, in Standards and best practices.
- Set up testing for the WordPress themes accessibility-ready tag, in Test for accessibility.
Joe Dolson posted about this new requirements in Accessibility-Ready Requirements Updated.
This means that all themes with the tag accessibility-ready need to be reviewed again and for this Amber organized a GAAD Theme Accessibility Testing Workshop. Many people joined in to learn how to test a theme.
Work in progress on the documentation
Jessica Lyschik (@luminuu) opened the issue Enhance accessibility-ready guidelines with classic vs. block theme information and examples how to achieve the guidelines for extending the info with a guideline with technical details on how to implement the requirements for both the tester and the theme developer who might have to fix these things.
Rian Rietveld is working on cross linking the topics in Standards and Best practices with the new accessibility-ready guidelines, and making way of adding resources uniform cross the site.
Rian is also working on updating the pages about how to test for accessibility.
Annelies Verhelst (@anneliesjenl) wrote an update of the page about accessibility legislation worldwide, in Standards and best practice. So much has changed the last few years. This update is currently in review.
Anne-Mieke Bovelett (@annebovelett) is working on updating and extending pages about the Accessibility for your business, in Start with Accessibility.
WordCamp Europe contibutor day
In preparation for WordCamp Europe, Rian makes an inventory of the accessibility info on wordpress.org and its sub sites. She plans to talk to the docs and meta team about how to make the info about accessibility available in a workable way while avoiding duplicate content.
Also, we want your opinion about the info on wpaccessibility.org and perform user testing on the site. So hop by the accessibility table if you want to test or discuss the WP Accessibility Knowledge Base.