Title: The accessibility team needs a plugin for their… Author: Jen Published: January 8, 2014 Last modified: December 27, 2022 --- [ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jenmylo/) [Jen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jenmylo/) 7:10 pm _on_ January 8, 2014 Tags: accessibilty, [make ( 14 )](https://make.wordpress.org/meta/tag/make/), tinymce    # The accessibility team needs a plugin for their… The 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) team needs a pluginPlugin 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/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/) or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. for their site that will allow them to create tables for displaying tabular data/content in their accessibility reports( pages). I know TMCE has a table builder that we could add, but what I’m not sure about is if it creates accessible tables. 1. Getting tables on there at all: better with a plugin that’s already out there, or better to write a one-off that just adds that one thing? 2. Once the options are identified something in place, [@accessiblejoe](https://profiles.wordpress.org/accessiblejoe/) can take a look at the table output to see if it’s accessible of if we need to write an add-on to make it that way. 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[Kim Parsell](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kpdesign/) 7:14 pm _on_ January 8, 2014 3. Has anyone looked at TablePress? [https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/) Not sure about the 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) of the output, but it’s a possibility. 4. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/73c1045212929211deda7262005831319397c68d340a8c41d53633b3f7e7f129? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 5. [Andrew Ozz](https://profiles.wordpress.org/azaozz/) 7:47 pm _on_ January 8, 2014 6. Generally TinyMCE has very good 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). We can add the ‘table’ pluginPlugin 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/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/) or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. to it quite easily. However not sure about “creating accessible tables”: are there any special requirements apart from the standard HTMLHTML HTML is an acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used in the development of web pages and websites.? 7. Looking at the tablepress plugin, it’s huge and pretty complex, and seems to offer a spreadsheet-like features when editing a table (formulas and what-not). Is that needed? 8. * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9c184f96bd47233afcf0623851f129c13009d7886753f40867c9d4b5856ec080? s=32&d=mm&r=g) * [Jen Mylo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jenmylo/) 8:25 pm _on_ January 8, 2014 * Nope, we just need basic tables. 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) centers on the table elements being properly labeled. Joe can talk to you about it, linking him here. * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/479f05d4acc73915a43b24a1ee3f30477d4ee19bbec6a5a79906d396f2b2d2ad? s=32&d=mm&r=g) * [Sam Sidler](https://profiles.wordpress.org/samuelsidler/) 6:24 am _on_ January 13, 2014 * Can we add it to coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. as part of 3.9? The make blogs run trunk, so that’d enable it by default; but there was also discussion of it being in core anyway, now that we can. 9. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b7dbc76934c3ca484e3b4caa7e9784918451a304fbc19bcd8ae77739cf414ec1? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 10. [Rian Rietveld](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rianrietveld/) 8:31 pm _on_ January 8, 2014 11. Maybe in this discussion there are two different issues; is the output accessible and can a table be added by someone using only a keyboard. 12. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e3a3eab4b3c5018dbd30d88a0ff9f3305a1fd88ba058750298292aac4d3c7e23? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 13. [Joseph Karr O'Connor](https://profiles.wordpress.org/accessiblejoe/) 5:31 am _on_ January 9, 2014 14. Rian is correct, there are two different types of situations involved with admin pages. We use 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/](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/). 2.0 AA guidelines for web pages and ATAG AA guidelines for web applications. In both, keyboard 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) is required. 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