Taking Steps for More Accessible Themes
We’ve been working with the Theme Review team to coordinate sharing more information about making themes accessible, with an eye towards the goals in our Accessible Themes Roadmap. The first step in...
View ArticleAccessibility Ticket Priorities for WordPress 4.2
Here we are again, at the beginning of another great rendition of WordPress! As is normal at the beginning of a cycle, here are a few big issues that the WordPress Accessibility team would like to see...
View ArticleBetter Support for Accessibility Issues
The support team’s weekly meetup today invited representatives from the Accessibility and Theme Review teams to share information about how we could better support each other. As a result of that...
View ArticleCommunity Hub Poll
If you haven’t seen it yet, please take a quick break to fill out the Community Hub poll. The poll closes at midnight on January 29th, so act quickly!
View ArticleHiding text for screen readers with WordPress Core
WordPress introduced the class .screen-reader-text in 2009. Since then, it’s been the canonical way that WordPress handles any HTML output that is targeted at screen readers. Introducing new HTML in...
View ArticleLet WordPress Speak: New in WordPress 4.2
Written by Andrea Fercia & Joe Dolson WordPress 4.2 is shipping with a useful new JavaScript method: wp.a11y.speak(). This is a utility to make it easy for WordPress core to create consistent...
View ArticleAccessibility Priorities for 4.3
For the development of WordPress 4.3, we’ve got a handful of major issues we want to work on to create a smoother and more predictable experience for users with disabilities. Reconcile Heading...
View ArticleCongratulations to Andrea Fercia on gaining guest committer…
Congratulations to Andrea Fercia on gaining guest committer privileges for the WordPress 4.4 release cycle! This is great news for WordPress and accessibility!
View ArticleUpdates to WordPress theme accessibility guidelines
The accessibility-ready guidelines for WordPress themes were updated today. There are no explicit changes to the requirements, but the order of the guidelines has been changed so that it corresponds...
View ArticleAccessibility code standards for WordPress in draft
The accessibility code standards for WordPress have been added to the core handbook and are open for feedback over the next two week. Also see the Core blog announcement and the draft standards...
View ArticleTeam Meeting 3/21/2016
Our team meeting for today focused primarily on goal setting. As we’re nearing the release candidate stage for WordPress 4.5, it’s time to move our attentions forward to the future again. Coming out of...
View ArticleAccessibility Wish List for 4.6 and beyond
Following the example from development on the WordPress Editor, the accessibility team is going to start posting our goals in wish list format. If you have an accessibility goal you’d like to see the...
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WordCamp Europe Summary
The WordPress Accessibility Team at WordCamp Europe. Left to Right: Joe Dolson, Andrea Fercia, Rian Rietveld, Graham Armfield, Mike Little, and Morten Rand-Hendriksen On June 26th, the contributor day...
View ArticleRevising the WordPress Editor: Gutenberg and Accessibility
One of the three top priorities for development in the next releases of WordPress is to enhance and modernize the editor. This is an important project to give users the ability to create rich and...
View ArticleThis week in WPA11y – July 24, 2017
Transcript of meeting. The discussion of the handbook was punted to the July 31st, 2017 meeting, as @samikeijonen was unable to attend this week’s meeting. As this discussion was originally intended as...
View ArticleThis week in WordPress Accessibility, August 7th, 2017
Transcript of the meeting Accessibility of Select2 WooCommerce makes use of Select2, and has forked Select2 to create a more accessible version. Select2 has not been updated since the beginning of the...
View ArticleThis week in WordPress Accessibility, August 28th, 2017
Transcript of the meeting Agenda Handbook, progress so far CodeMirror Gutenberg Open floor CodeMirror was moved up in the discussion by request of @samikeijonen. CodeMirror CodeMirror will be...
View ArticleReport on the Accessibility Status of Gutenberg
On October 3rd, the schedule for WordPress 5.0 was proposed. Prior to this, the accessibility team had not been made aware of a release time frame, and had no reason to believe WordPress 5.0 and the...
View ArticleGutenberg Accessibility Progress Report
Since the release of Gutenberg 4.1.0, 18 pull requests labeled as accessibility issues have been committed to Gutenberg. Not all of these fixes are in the current release (4.2), as work has already...
View ArticleAccessibility Team Meeting Notes: November 9, 2018
Meeting transcript on Slack Current progress on Gutenberg Accessibility At the time of the meeting, major issues with Publishing Flow were near merge and expected to land soon. Otherwise, minor fixes...
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