After several years of working on WordPress and accessibility and being part of the accessibility team, I have taken the very difficult decision to leave the WordPress accessibility team. I owe it to the team to explain why I have made this decision and how I hope things can improve for the future.
Category: WordPress
Keyboard test Gutenberg, a first try
How does Gutenberg 2.3 perform with keyboard only? I’ve set up a test and looked for issues. The test, the results and a YouTube with the test are included.
The screen-reader-text class, why and how?
Imagine you are blind, how do you understand a website? You would use a screen reader. All the text in a website is read out loud for you, from top to bottom. To navigate a site you can call a link list and a headings list. The headings list you can use to navigate inside the… Continue reading The screen-reader-text class, why and how?
Accessible HTML5 heading structure in WordPress
How to get a WordPress developer all emotional and fanatic: discuss about heading structure.
Here’s my point of view on how headings should be set up in a WordPress theme.
And an overview of the pros and cons brought up in discussions.
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.