WordPress: Accessibility

Learn how to create an accessible website in WordPress.

Introduction

• Making accessible websites using WordPress
• WordPress base knowledge

1. What Is Web Accessibility

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

2. Accessibility and WordPress

• Understanding accessibility in WordPress
• WordPress core features
• WordPress Classic themes
• WordPress full site editing
• WordPress plugins
• Creating accessible content

3. Accessibility in Your Theme

• Examining accessible design
• Accessible color
• Accessible navigation
• Perceivable images and icons
• Page architecture and HTML semantics
• Page builders
• Block themes vs. classic themes vs. page builders

4. Using Accessible WordPress Plugins

• How to assess plugin accessibility
• ARIA, AJAX, and other four-letter words
• Interacting with forms and their responses
• Authoring tools and accessibility guidelines

5. Accessibility Plugins for WordPress

• Testing tools for WordPress
• Accessibility overlays
• Accessibility add-ons

6. Authoring Accessible Content

• Writing accessible content
• Using audio and video
• Organizing content on the page
• Accessibility support in the Block Editor
• Accessibility support in the Classic Editor

7. Testing for Accessibility

• Automated and manual testing
• Testing accessibility with the keyboard
• Testing accessibility with WAVE by WebAIM
• Testing accessibility with AXE by Deque
• Using bookmarklets for quick assessments

8. Remediation Workshop

• Finding the issue
• Identifying the source of an issue
• What needs to change?
• Making the change

Conclusion

• Next steps