[wp-accessibility] Let's get started on improving WordPress accessibility

[Lynne Pope]

2009/8/10 Alastair Campbell <alastc at gmail.com>

>
> The accessibility of an app like Wordpress is quite a wide ranging
> challenge, I guess it's best to pick areas and try and improve the
> core coding? I would struggle to find time to do a proper review (as
> Joe Clark did a few years ago
> (http://joeclark.org/access/webaccess/WordPress-ATAG-evaluation.html).
> The admin area and accessibility guidelines have moved on since then,
> so that probably isn't relevant anymore.
>
>
WordPress has moved on, and so has both the understanding of accessibility
and the guidelines themselves.

The three sets of guidelines we really need to focus on are:

ATAG (specifically the backend)  http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/atag;
WCAG 2 (both frontend and backend) http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag;
WAI-ARIA (again, applies to both frontend and backend)
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria

Ironically, since Joe wrote that evaluation, WordPress has gone backwards in
some areas, despite making up a lot of ground in others.
It would be great to do a new evaluation against the current guidelines -
this could help provide focus for this group.

Lynne
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