Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
Wappu #a11y
WordPressState of the Accessibility
WordCamp Europe 2016
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!
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
