WP A11y Docs update November 2025

This update informs you about:

• new design and a better search option wpaccessibility.org;
• contributors feedback on WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. Netherlands;
• new and updated documentation;
• 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) audit on the website.

New design and a better search option wpaccessibility.org

@joedolson improved the search: there is an actual search result page now, instead of only a autocomplete dropdown. Rian implemented the design just before WordCamp Netherlands.

Contributors feedback on WordCamp Netherlands

At WCNL Rian gave a presentation about the project and there were two contributor sessions. The main takeaway was that we also need a more prominent section about why we need accessibility. To have documentation to share with clients, team members or, for example, stackholders that do not see the point.

New and updated documentation

• Start with accessibility – Debunking myths:
  • Accessibility Overlays
• Standards and best practice – Web forms – Group form fields:
  • Fieldset and legend to group form fields
  • Legend with a fieldset
  • Description with a fieldset
• Standards and best practice – Web forms – Required fields:
  • Indicate required fields in forms
  • Option 1: Marking only the required form fields
  • Option 2: Marking only the optional form fields
  • Indicate required fields for screen readers

Accessibility audit on the website

In the first week of December, Florian Schroiff (@floll) from Level Level will perform a WCAG-EM accessibility audit on the website, including the new design and the updated search option. We will fix what he found in December, because we want to practice what we preach.

Plans for December 2025

• Continue to write the documentation.
• Make sure wpaccessibility.org is WCAGWCAG 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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