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?
Category Archives: Accessibility
Indicating focus without outline
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
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
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