This update informs you about:
- publishing of new documentation has started;
- the accessibility 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) of wpaccessibility.org itself;
- presentations at WP Meetups about the project;
- how you can help.
Accessibility information for web forms
We started publishing documentation in the section Standards and best practice.
Three topics are now published:
For the pages about web forms we need examples of how WP plugins handle this (or don’t handle this).
Accessibility of wpaccessibility.org
@joedolson is working on making the search option at the top of each page, fully accessible. We hope to finish that soon. After that Level Level will perform an official WCAG EM audit. Because we need to practice what we preach.
Making noise
Rian gave two presentations at the WP Meetups, in Amsterdam and Utrecht about the project; This resulted in more readers and reviewers of new documentation and also possibly one more sponsor. The next talk will be November 27 ’25 at WordCamp Netherlands.
How can you help?
Read new content and let us know what you think. We write for you! Can you understand it, is it helpful, do you need more or different examples. New content doesn’t starts with the alert “This content needs to be reviewed and expanded”.
For the pages about web forms we need examples of how plugins handle accessibility. Do you use or work for one of the major WordPress Form plugins and want to help? Please contact us, we need your expertise.
Plans for november 2025
- Continue to write the documentation about web forms.
- Make sure wpaccessibility.org is WCAG WCAG is an acronym for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. These guidelines are helping make sure the internet is accessible to all people no matter how they would need to access the internet (screen-reader, keyboard only, etc) https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/. 2.2 AA accessible.
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