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The AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) Team shares accessibility expertise across the project to improve the accessibility of WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and resources.

WordPress targets WCAG 2.1 at level AA as the standard for development.

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For support related to WordPress & accessibility, visit the WordPress Accessibility forum.

You can also ask questions during Accessibility Team Office Hours every Wednesday at 14:00 UTC in the accessibility channel in SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/..

The support team’s weekly meetup today invited representatives from the AccessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) and Theme Review teams to share information about how we could better support each other. As a result of that meeting, we’ve officially agreed on the use of ‘a11yAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility)’ as the tag for accessibility issues in the Support forums.

In the support forums, anybody can add tags to any thread – so if you see a thread that requires a11y help, be sure to add the tag so that people who monitor accessibility issues can easily find it.

In parallel with this, anybody who’s interested in helping out on the support end of WordPress accessibility issues, you can monitor the accessibility tag to watch for new issues. You can check that page periodically, or you can subscribe via RSS or email.

If you’ve got experience with accessibility and any of the other areas of WordPress information, helping out in the support forums is a great way to get started making a difference.

For more information on WordPress support and tagging, here are a couple relevant resources:

Andrea Fercia 9:58 pm on January 15, 2015

ahem the link to “weekly meetupMeetup All local/regional gatherings that are officially a part of the WordPress world but are not WordCamps are organized through https://www.meetup.com/. A meetup is typically a chance for local WordPress users to get together and share new ideas and seek help from one another. Searching for ‘WordPress’ on meetup.com will help you find options in your area. today” is not a link 🙂
Joe Dolson 9:59 pm on January 15, 2015

Grah. Forgot to paste it. (I copied it…just didn’t finish the process!)
Rian Rietveld 2:49 pm on January 16, 2015

Maybe it’s also a good idea to check all the accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) and accessible tags and decide if they need to be removed or changed into a11yAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) tags, then we have the lot together
- Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 7:00 pm on January 16, 2015
  
  Cart and horse 🙂 First try using what we came up with. IF it works as well as we think, then look into a mass scrub cleanup.
Joe Dolson 4:02 pm on January 16, 2015

Anybody can go in and add a11yAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) tags to any support post that needs it; there’s no particular need to remove other tags. All registered WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ users can add tags, however.
Rian Rietveld 6:56 pm on January 26, 2015

Was just wondering how people asking support know they can use the a11yAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) tag as preferred before accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) and accessible
Joe Dolson 6:58 pm on January 26, 2015

They don’t; but that’s intentional. The idea is that forum moderators can add the tag when it’s necessary, so that people who are accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) specialists can find the info.

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