Accessibility

The accessibility inspector provides a means to access important information exposed to assistive technologies on the current page via the accessibility tree, allowing you to check what's missing or otherwise needs attention. This article takes you through the main features of the accessibility inspector and how to use it.

The placeholder attribute contains a surprising amount of issues that prevent it from delivering on what it promises. Let’s clarify why you need to stop using it.

WCAG 2.1 has officially been put in place as a standard but what does that mean? What was added? How does this impact my site or app? In this post we break down everything new in WCAG 2.1 and put in simple terms so you can walk away armed with the knowledge of making your site more accessibile.

If you live in an American city and you don’t personally use a wheelchair, it’s easy to overlook the small ramp at most intersections, between the sidewalk and the street. Today, these curb cuts are everywhere, but fifty years ago — when an activist named Ed Roberts was young — most urban corners featured a sharp

In a previous article we talked about why accessibility matters, in terms of business, SEO, usability, and even the law. In this article I’ll explain how to create accessible WordPress themes,...

The 17th May 2018 is Global Accessibility Awareness day, which makes today the ideal time to consider how inclusive our experiences are for those users who may be disabled, differently-abled, or temporarily inconvenienced. 2017 was a big year for website accessibility lawsuits. Seyfarth and Shaw reported that, by year's end, there were 814 ADA Title III federal lawsuits filed against websites in the United States alone. Perhaps the most well-known of these cases was Juan Carlos Gil v. Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. The blind plaintiff, Mr Gil, alleged that certain parts of the website essential to...

What is the best workflow, and which tools should you use for automated accessibility testing in a web development project with WordPress?

Recently Automattic hosted an online conference on design and exclusion. Instead of calling it a conference on inclusive design, they flipped the idea around to focus on what conscious and unconscious decisions lead to the systematic exclusion of people. Inclusive design is about a lot more than the web and it’s about a lot more …

In the introductory post to this Web Accessibility series we talked about what accessibility is and why it matters. Armed with some basic information, I’d like to dive into what actually makes a website accessible and what some tools are that you can use to check the accessibility of your website. At the end of […]

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Introduction How to test the accessibility of a web project? There are many different ways to use the web besides a mouse and a pair of eyes. Users navigate for example with a keyboard only or with…

The WordPress Accessibility team is seeking contributors for its handbook project. It’s a collection of tips, resources, tools, and best practices. The goal is to educate users through summar…

The built-in Firefox Developer Tools just received a new family member. The Accessibility Inspector allows you to inspect your website’s exposure to assistive technologies.

This document provides readers with an understanding of how to use WAI-ARIA 1.1 [wai-aria-1.1] to create accessible rich internet applications. It describes considerations that might not be evident to most authors from the WAI-ARIA specification alone and recommends approaches to make widgets, navigation, and behaviors accessible using WAI-ARIA roles, states, and properties. This document is directed primarily to Web application developers, but the guidance is also useful for user agent and assistive technology developers.

W3C Working Draft 15 January 2018

One year ago, the popular government policy magazine Open Access Government stated, “Accessibility for all is not an option – it’s a fundamental right.” Creating equal access to digital content, regardless of age, size, ability, or disability, has always been a priority for 10up; it is inseparable from our mission to make a better internet [...]

W3C Note 7 August 2000

We’ve been working with SVGs a lot recently, which has led our developers down a rabbithole of discovery! Here are some things to consider when it comes to SVGs and accessibility.

Why your coolest scrolly features can cause problems, and what to do about it

I'm sure you know about alt text. It's the attribute on the image tag that has the important task of describing what that image is for someone who can't see it for any reason. Please use them. I don't want to dimish the please use them message, but some interesting alt-text-related things have come up in my

Accessibility in emails is getting more and more press in the past few years, which is a good thing.

A list of accessibility testing tools for websites and online applications.

Is your website accessible to those with a disability? Approximately 56.7 million Americans have a disability. Unfortunately, the majority of websites, even newly built ones, do not meet accessibility standards. If you haven’t considered accessibility until now, your site most likely has barriers that make it difficult for anyone with a disability to view and …

Written by Andrea Fercia & Joe Dolson WordPress 4.2 is shipping with a useful new JavaScript method: wp.a11y.speak(). This is a utility to make it easy for WordPress core to create consistent m…

I’ve been thinking recently about the nature of my work and which aspects of it I enjoy the most. In a role that will often straddle the realms of design a