wordpress, state of the accessibility

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WordPressState of the Accessibility

WordCamp Europe 2016

Text & links

rianrietveld.com/wceu16

So, how accessible is WordPress?

Well, it depends…

A lot is pretty good!

Frontend

Basic content management

TO DO

TO DO: Legacy code

TO DO: Consistency

Consistency: Search posts

Consistency: Search themes

Consistency: Search plugins

TO DO: Accessibility-ready reviews

Eva Westerhoff @evawesterhoff

Goodmorning WordCamp EuropeI hope you have lots of fun in Vienna

Eva Westerhoff @evawesterhoff

Subtitles in WordPress.tv

On May 18th there were 4648 videos on WordPress.tv, of which 246 have subtitles.

That’s 5%

This is a work in progress

Rebuild from scratch?

Media!

JavaScript is not the enemy

Milestones 2015 - 2016

“All new or updated code

released into WordPress core and bundled themes

must conform with the

WCAG 2.0 guidelines at level AA.”

EU logo

• Accessibility handbook • Code patterns on GitHub • JS method wp.a11y.speak() • Accessibility forum • Test team

Help is on the way:

Meet the test team!

3 tips to improve your code

• Use one H1 per page

• Check for colour contrast

• Keyboard test

Where are we now?

Contributor days & Meetups

While you are learning JavaScript deeply,

learn accessibility deeply too!

Text & links

rianrietveld.com/wceu16

@rianrietveld

Image creditsChildren at school by Lucélia Ribeiro, https://www.flickr.com/photos/lupuca/

Emoijs from http://emojione.com

Old Garage and mess by Moyan Brenn https://www.flickr.com/photos/aigle_dore/

Lonely departure (Explored) by Cyril https://www.flickr.com/photos/cilou101/

Test team: images provided by the testers themselves