Rian Rietveld 9:43 am on October 3, 2017  

Accessibility Team, October 2, 2017

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Labels when multiple same landmark roles in the same page

Related tickets:

  • #42056: Twenty Seventeen: role=”complementary” are missing labels
  • #42057: Add ability to pass a label for the element returned by get_search_form()

This issue applies only to roles that are also landmark regions. They’re reported by screen readers as navigational element and, when there are more then one of them, there’s the need to disambiguate them in the same way we’ve done for navigation menus.
@williampatton will respond to the tickets with the conclusion of our discussion and some examples.

screen-reader-text class check

Recently the screen-reader-text class has been updated, see #40970: Update and audit the screen-reader-text CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. class used in coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. We discussed if this was the right CSS as some screen-reader-text is read out in reversed order by Apple VoiceOver. This is depending on the height to the element containing the screen-reader-text class. As this already was the case before we changed the class, we blame Apple and leave the class as is.
As soon as the screen-reader-text page is added to the handbook, we will update all instances of this class in the wp.org documentation, referring to that page.

GutenbergGutenberg The 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/ frontend markup

@samikeijonen tested and reported the frontend markup of the blocks Gutenberg produces.

We discussed the results and saw issues with the semantics, the W3CW3C The 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/. and 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/. validation. At the request of @karmatosed, @samikeijonen will create an issue for this on the GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ repo of Gutenberg.

Also the inline CSS that is added to the 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. was discussed.
Sami suggested an option add_theme_support( gutenberg ) to set inline styles to false or replace inline CSS with classes. Inline styles inhibit the ability of users to use their own custom stylesheets and create a barrier to tools that customise the view. Inline CSS is also not good for rendering performance and SEO added @Joostdevalk.
It also would be useful if theme authors could disable blocks or functionality like the adjusting the text and background colours.

Related issues on GitHub: