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Category: Accessibility

Can a theme be compliant with WCAG?

In this article I want to bring up an important topic. Can a theme be compliant with WCAG, and how do we test it? This article is an overview of what is a wide and complicated topic. I am not going to be able to cover everything, and this article assumes that you have a… Continue reading Can a theme be compliant with WCAG?

Published May 1, 2020
Categorized as Accessibility, Themes

Indicating focus without outline

A list of links with different focus styles: Background color, high contrast background color, double underline, wavy underline and blue text color, and a link with a border and box shadow.

Earlier this week I wrote about how to improve the focus outline, and I mentioned that you are not limited to using outline. In this post I will give some examples of how to indicate focus without the outline (I know you hate it). -The purpose is not to always keep the outline at all… Continue reading Indicating focus without outline

Published April 28, 2020
Categorized as Accessibility, Tutorial

How to improve the focus outline

In this article or tutorial I will write about how you can improve the focus outline for links, controls and input fields. When you are developing a WordPress theme for release on WordPress.org, the theme must have a visible indicator that shows the user when an element has received focus. This is part of the… Continue reading How to improve the focus outline

Published April 26, 2020
Categorized as Accessibility, Tutorial

Planning for keyboard navigation

The theme review team is requiring all themes to implement keyboard navigation in two months time, around the third of september 2019. Because this may be a complex task for many authors, we encourage you to start planning for and working on this as soon as possible. We want to point out that this requirement… Continue reading Planning for keyboard navigation

Published July 20, 2019
Categorized as Accessibility, News, Review

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