Twenty Eleven accessible? Accessible child theme in progress

Twenty Eleven accessible? Accessible child theme in progress

WordCamp 2011- Sylvia Egger – accessible.sprungmarker.de

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WordPress 3.2 (July 2011)

New default theme

Twenty Eleven

Twenty Eleven If only be used

each fiftieth download ...


Twenty Eleven

Who is using the default theme?

Beginners & Timeboxer

Using WordPress default theme quite out of the box.

Individuals & Specialists

„Hello Support, I am using the Twenty Eleven theme for my blog. I am wondering whether I can remove the Search box from the upper right hand corner on all pages.“ (WordPress Forums)

Theme developers „As you can see in source theme makes some use of Settings API, but doesn't include calls like do_settings_fileds() that would allow you to use add settings. I would probably try to unhook twentyeleven_theme_options_add_page() call and fork that and theme_options_render_page() to extend it with additional options.“ (WordPress Answers)

Twenty Eleven

Fully accessible?

Twenty Eleven fully accessible?

No!

Why?

Twenty Eleven fully accessible? Accessibility of WordPress theme is a complex process depending on: •Theme – Templates •Editor (TinyMCE) •Widgets, Plugins

Twenty Eleven accessibility issues?


Accessible Twenty Eleven

A Twenty Eleven child theme

What is a child theme? „A WordPress child theme is a theme that inherits the functionality of another theme, called the parent theme, and allows you to modify, or add to, the functionality of that parent theme.“ WordPress Codex

Advantages of a child theme?

• Twenty Eleven can be updated without harm • It‘s up to you which parts you modify • Use functions.php for modifications • In most cases there is no need to modify templates

Disadvantages of a child theme?

If you are modifying a lot in the child theme:

• consider using a main theme, not a child theme • keep performance in mind • functions.php could get rather complex

Accessible Twenty Eleven – styles.css


Accessible Twenty Eleven - Features

• Enhanced form handling with HTML5 and CSS3 • Required states, form validation • HTML5 input types as search, url and email

• Accessible colors and contrast according to WCAG AAA

• Enhanced keyboard use • Dropdown navigation usable with keyboard • Skip link first link on page, added skip links back to top,

after content und after footer area. • Optimized link hover, focus and active states


Accessible Twenty Eleven - Features

• Optimized mouseover states

• Enhanced semantics • Additional hidden headlines • Repairing headline structure

• Language change (MCE language change plugin)

• Implementing breadcrumb for better getting position on website


Accessible Twenty Eleven - Preview

Color & Contrast


Color & Contrast – Twenty Eleven


Color & Contrast Accessible Twenty Eleven


Color & Contrast – Twenty Eleven


Color & Contrast Accessible Twenty Eleven


Colour Contrast Analyser Twenty Eleven


Colour Contrast Analyser Accessible Twenty Eleven


Enhanced keyboard use


Comparison keyboard use: Twenty Eleven – Accessible Twenty Eleven


Enhanced form handling

Accessible Twenty Eleven - Enhanced form handling

• HTML5 input types (url, email, search) • error handling: HTML5 required • HTML5 placeholder where appropriate • search form: enhanced with attribute results and

autosave • Enhanced hover and focus states with CSS3

animations


Enhanced comment form: Accessible Twenty Eleven Fully supported by: FF 4, Chrome, Opera, IE10 – partial Safari 5, iOS 4


Enhanced search form: Accessible Twenty Eleven

Fully supported by: Safari 5, FF 4, Chrome, Opera 11, IE10, Safari Mobile iOS 4


Accessible Twenty Eleven comment form: JAWS Firefox 4 form validation HTML5

You want to use Accessible Twenty Eleven

now! Is not ready yet – but soon.

As soon as it is ready, you can download the child theme,

upload it to your themes folder and install it on your WordPress blog.

Installing a child theme in WordPress is easy. Go to:

Administration Panels > Design > Themes

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MCE Accessible Language Change – WordPress plugin

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mce-accessible-language-change/

Technology

Twenty Eleven accessible? Accessible child theme in progress