WordPress needs documentation about accessibility, help me work on it

Update: Very grateful that Level Level and Kinsta both will sponsor me for a part. If your company wants to sponsor too, please e-mail me at rian@rianrietveld.nl. Let’s create a web for everyone. You can follow the progress of the project on WordPress.org with the tag #wp-a11y-docs. The goal During my 25 years working as… Continue reading WordPress needs documentation about accessibility, help me work on it

Storytelling in HTML: practical accessibility

A web page can be perfectly WCAG 2 proof, but if it doens’t tell a story, it’s still a puzzle for people that depend on a braille line or a screen reader.
Set yourself in the place of someone who get’s your web page read out loud linearly and the only clue she has on what the structure is, are headings and links.

How accessible is the WordPress CMS for a blind content manager

As we take great effort to make the front-end of WordPress accessible, the next challenge will be to make an equally accessible CMS. In order to get an impression on this challenge awaiting us I have started a study, together with Jaap van de Putte on how accessible the current CMS of WordPress really is.