The AccessibilityAccessibilityAccessibility (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 provides accessibility expertise across the project to improve the accessibility of WordPress coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. and resources.
The WordPress Accessibility Coding Standards state that “All new or updated code released in WordPress must conform with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 at level AA.”
Give all HTMLHTMLHTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites.<img> elements an alt attribute.
Describe (for non-visual readers) the contents and purpose of the image in the alternate text.
Use CSSCSSCSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. to insert images that are only decorative, like a logo or icon.
Give any decorative images in an img element an empty alt attribute ( alt="" ).
If an alt attribute is not inserted in the Media Library, this will be interpreted as alt="" in the frontend.
If an image contains as link, the alt attribute should contain the target of that link (e.g. the post title), and not the description of the image.
<img src="../../gallery/illustration.png" alt="description of the illustration">
Correct: will be interpreted as "description of the illustration, image" (example by Apple VoiceOver)
<img src="../../gallery/illustration.png" alt="">
Correct: will be interpreted as "image" (example by Apple VoiceOver)
<a href="blog.html"><img src="icon.png" alt="Blog Postings"></a>
Correct: will be interpreted as "link, image Blog Postings, image" (example by Apple VoiceOver)
<img src="../../gallery/illustration.png">
<img src="illustration.png">
False: will both be interpreted as "illustration.png, image" (example by Apple VoiceOver)
Image from WordPress Media Library where you can insert various metaMetaMeta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.-information for an image. An alternative text can be inserted in the Alt Text-field
The alt attribute from the <img> element – often called “alt text” or even wrongly “alt tag” – is used in screen readers. The text in the alt attribute is interpreted by screen readers, as an alternative for the image. When an <img> element doesn’t have an alt attribute, the filename from the src attribute will be presented instead.
On the Web AccessibilityAccessibilityAccessibility (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) Tutorials of the W3CW3CThe World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.https://www.w3.org/. the great Alt Decision Tree tool is an almost comprehensive guide that describes how to use the alt attribute of an image in various situations.
Blind, people with visual and readability limitations will benefit when using a screen reader.
The alt attribute helps with Search Engine Optimization. Google uses alt text along with computer vision algorithms and the contents of the page to understand the subject matter of the image (source https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/114016).
WCAGWCAGWCAG 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/. 2.1 Success Criterion #WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion
