The Accessibility Lab plugin was announced on August 21st, and now that WordPress 7.1 is wrapped up, it’s time to start scoping out the first features to target for release.
For an initial discussion, we’ll meet on Thursday, September 17, 2026 15:00 UTC in the #accessibility channel on Slack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. This is the same time as the bi-weekly 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) Team meeting.
The discussion has three initial goals:
- Brainstorm the features we want to develop.
- Decide which features should be prioritized to prepare for an initial release.
- For each goal, establish what we aim to learn by shipping the feature in the plugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party., and how we can measure success.
Since the original announcement, the plugin has been moved to the WordPress Github repository.
If you are unable to attend the meeting, your brainstorming ideas and priorities can be shared either in a comment on this post or as a new issue in the plugin repository.
Remember that the goal for this plugin is to provide a mechanism for exploration and experimentation, and not a place to fix common accessibility problems. If you don’t have a clear answer to how a problem might be solved, that is very possibly exactly the type of issue we want to explore!
Reviewed by @aduth, @areziaal
