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 shares 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.
WordPress uses several separate systems for tracking issues. Issues with WordPress itself are tracked in core ticket tracking. Issues with the network of sites at WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe 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/ are tracked in the meta ticket tracker. Issues in the development of the blockBlockBlock is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. and site editors are tracked in the Gutenberg repository at GitHub.
GutenbergGutenbergThe Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ issues have a few different labels.
Tickets that are ongoing tasks because there’s the need to find instances, touch several parts of the code base, etc. They need to be split into separate tickets for each instance. Any help welcome!
Other long-term tasks: General, broad, issues that would require some big refactoring and probably can’t be solved soon. Opened to start the discussion and research under a11y-task keyword.
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) tickets grouped by topics. We use custom keywords to keep track of some main accessibility issues. To give some background about the progress so far, these reports show all the tickets, even the closed ones. Append &status=!closed to the URLURLA specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org to filterFilterFilters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. out the closed tickets.
Latest Tickets: All tickets opened in the last two months
If you find an accessibility issue in WordPress coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., or in one of the core themes, please create a new ticket and give it the focus “accessibility”.