[wp-edu] [EXT]: Ensuring WordPress sites meet accessibility standards?

[Berardi, Richard]

Hello David,
I am the web administrator at Georgian Court University<https://georgian.edu/>.

I just went through this, transforming our 800+ page non-accessible site. (3-month development time)
After a few months of research, multiple themes/plugins, etc., I went with the GeneratePress theme, using Elementor for our page builder.

Also, during development, I used the Google Chrome extension “Siteimprove Accessibility Checker”. (University’s need to be AA compliant)

Please let me know if you have any additional, more specific questions.
Rich

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Richard Berardi
Web Administrator
Marketing & Communications
Georgian Court University
900 Lakewood Ave.
Lakewood, NJ 08701
p: 732-987-2469<tel:732-987-2469>
e: rberardi at georgian.edu<mailto:rberardi at georgian.edu>



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Hello all,

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.

I’d be interested to know how others are approaching this issue.

I’m going to assessing these three plugins:


https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-accessibility/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-accessibility-helper/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/userway-accessibility-widget/
Are there others people can recommend?
Are there certain themes that are more accessible than others that you have tried?

Any thoughts/experiences/ideas you have would be greatly appreciated.

Best wishes,

David


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David Grogan
Senior Solutions Specialist
Tufts Technology Services – Educational Technology Services
617-627-2859


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