WordPress: Accessibility

Build an accessible website with WordPress. Learn how to use accessibility principles and WordPress plugins and themes to make your website accessible to all.

Introduction

• Accessibility in WordPress
• What you should know

1. What Is Web Accessibility?

• Web accessibility concepts
• Accessibility and your business
• Assistive technology overview

2. Accessibility and WordPress

• Creating accessible content
• Understanding accessibility in WordPress
• Accessible core: What WordPress provides
• Accessible interfaces: What WordPress themes control
• Accessible interfaces: What WordPress plugins control

3. Accessibility in Your Theme

• Examining design and color contrast
• Constructing accessible navigation
• Perceivable images and icons
• Page architecture and HTML semantics
• Page builder plugins
• Testing page builders

4. Plugin Accessibility

• WordPress plugins can do anything
• ARIA, Ajax, and your website
• Interacting with forms and their responses
• How WordPress plugins impact accessibility
• Example: WordPress plugins for accessibility

5. Authoring Accessible Content

• What is accessible content?
• Using audio and video
• Organizing your content on the page
• Getting help from the block editor
• Getting help from the Classic Editor

6. Testing in WordPress

• Automated and manual accessibility testing
• Testing accessibility with WAVE by WebAIM
• Testing accessibility with Tenon.io
• Testing accessibility using axe by Deque
• Using bookmarklets for quick assessments

Conclusion

• Next steps