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/*]]>*/</style><div>We are on multi-site WordPress. We don't have a dedicated webmaster, but did carve some time out for one of our skilled staffers to work on re-tooling the school websites.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Our approach has been:</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>• Researching Section 508 and WCAG 2.0 requirements, attending every workshop available on the subject.</div><div>• Standardizing on a theme that is inherently compliant as well as mobile-friendly (Monument Valley). It's important to note that no plugin is going to meet all the needs.</div><div>• We do complement the above theme with the WP Accessibility plugin.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>It's slow progress to win over the stakeholders who need to get their website redone but we've been pleased with the results so far.</div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__SIG_PRE__"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;">--</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;" data-mce-style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;">James Grubic</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;">Eugene School District 4J</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></div></div><br><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"Grogan, David" <David.Grogan@tufts.edu><br><b>To: </b>wp-edu@lists.automattic.com<br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, September 10, 2019 11:02:59 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[wp-edu] Ensuring WordPress sites meet accessibility standards?<br></div><br><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><p></p><div style="border: 2px solid red; border-radius: 5px; padding: 10px; background: #fcef6b; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: sans-serif;" data-mce-style="border: 2px solid red; border-radius: 5px; padding: 10px; background: #fcef6b; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: sans-serif;"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;">Hello all,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;">Recent mandates and guidelines at our school have us taking a close look at how we can ensure sites created on our multi-site instance are meeting digital accessibility standards (keyboard access to all features
of a site, accessible by screen readers etc.). Since we run our system as a self-service platform it’s going to be difficult to have all sites 100% accessible but we are looking at ways to mitigate issues.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;">I’d be interested to know how others are approaching this issue.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;">I’m going to assessing these three plugins:</span></p>
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<p class="list-number2"><span class="author-187698890"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'helvetica neue'; color: #222222;" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'helvetica neue'; color: #222222;"><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-accessibility/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-accessibility/</a></span></span></p>
<p class="list-number2"><span class="author-187698890"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'helvetica neue'; color: #222222;" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'helvetica neue'; color: #222222;"><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-accessibility-helper/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-accessibility-helper/</a></span></span></p>
<p class="list-number2"><span class="author-187698890"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'helvetica neue'; color: #222222;" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'helvetica neue'; color: #222222;"><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/userway-accessibility-widget/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://wordpress.org/plugins/userway-accessibility-widget/</a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;">Are there others people can recommend?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;">Are there certain themes that are more accessible than others that you have tried?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;">Any thoughts/experiences/ideas you have would be greatly appreciated.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;">Best wishes,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" data-mce-style="font-size: 11pt;">David</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">David Grogan</span><span style="color: black;" data-mce-style="color: black;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">Tufts Technology Services – Educational Technology Services</span><span style="color: black;" data-mce-style="color: black;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">617-627-2859</span><span style="color: black;" data-mce-style="color: black;"></span></p>
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