Accessibility Team Chat Summary November 16, 2015

Documentation

Discussion of adding information about accessible content management to either the Codex or 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) Handbook. Decided to add it to Handbook. Keyboard shortcuts will go in the Codex with a link from the Handbook.

Tickets

#34681 Consider removing the “Disable the visual editor when writing” option.
Decided to gather user experience data. Four questions to ask:

      Do you know how to switch between the visual and 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. editor in WordPress?
      If no, please try and figure out how, and tell us how that experience was for you.
      If yes, give us your thoughts about your experience using that feature.
      Do you use the option “Disable the visual editor when writing” in your profile?

#34625: wp-login.php site title link points to wordpress.org.
Suggested fix: removing the title attribute, changing the text to ‘Powered by WordPress’, and leaving the filterFilter Filters 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. on that text.

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