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

[Matthew K. Gold]

Dear Laurie,

Huge thanks for these great resources!!!

Best,

Matt
--
Matthew K. Gold, Ph.D.
Director, M.A. Program in Digital Humanities <http://www.gc.cuny.edu/dh> & M.S.
Program in Data Analysis and Visualization <http://www.gc.cuny.edu/datavis>
/
Associate Professor of English & Digital Humanities /
Advisor to the Provost for Digital Initiatives, CUNY Graduate Center
President, Association for Computers and the Humanities
President of the Constituent Organization Board, Association of Digital
Humanities Organizations
http://mkgold.net | @mkgold

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 3:30 PM Laurie Miles <lmiles at unca.edu> wrote:

> Hi David.
>
> We also have a multisite. Our students request sites for their academic
> classes. It is their responsibility (Terms of Use) to incorporate
> accessibility features in their site content. They don't always do it, mind
> you!
>
> I looked at the WP Accessibility Plugin and didn't find it all that
> helpful. It does offer some features that a site visitor could use to make
> the site more accessible - changing the font size, "high contrast" mode,
> skip-links. But, it doesn't really address making the site's content
> accessible from the start.
>
> When I teach WordPress workshops, I show users how to create accessible
> content - text formatting using headers, descriptive hyperlinks, accessible
> fonts, good contrast, alt text for images, captioning and transcripts, etc.
> Below are some references and tools I use.
>
> *References*
>
>    - WebAIM <https://webaim.org/>
>    - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines <https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/>
>    (WCAG)
>    - WordPress Accessibility Handbook
>    <https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/handbook/>
>
> *Accessibility Tools*
>
>    - ChromeVox Screen Reader
>    <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromevox-classic-extensi/kgejglhpjiefppelpmljglcjbhoiplfn>
>    (Chrome extension)
>    - Read & Write Gold
>    <https://www.texthelp.com/en-us/products/read-write/read-write-for-google/>
>    (Chrome extension)
>    - NVDA <https://www.nvaccess.org/download/> (free downloadable screen
>    reader)
>    - YouTube Captions
>    <https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734796?hl=en>
>    - Online Transcript Creator <http://otranscribe.com/>
>    - Google Doc Voice Typing
>    <https://qz.com/work/1087765/how-to-transcribe-audio-fast-and-for-free-using-google-docs-voice-typing/>
>    - Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool <https://wave.webaim.org/>
>    (website accessibility checker)
>
> *Simulations*
>
>    - Funkify Disability Simulator <https://www.funkify.org/simulators/> (Chrome
>    extension)
>    - Web Disability Simulator by Metamatrix
>    <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/web%20disability%20simulator>
>    (Chrome extension)
>    - Color Blindness Simulator
>    <https://www.toptal.com/designers/colorfilter/>
>
> As far as themes go, you can search in WordPress (
> https://wordpress.org/themes/) > *Feature Filter *for "Accessibility
> Ready" themes. For more information, see the WordPress Accessibility
> Handbook
> <https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/handbook/which-themes-can-you-use/>.
> This is probably WAY more information than you wanted, but I hope it is
> helpful.
>
> Best.
>
> *Laurie B. Miles*
> Instructional Technology Specialist
> UNC Asheville Center for Teaching and Learning <https://ctl.unca.edu/> | Digital
> Scholarship Team Ramsey Library
> <http://library.unca.edu/digital_scholarship>
> lmiles at unca.edu |828-251-6630
>
> Interested in learning more about WordPress? See our website WordPress at
> UNC Asheville <https://wp.unca.edu>
> Ask me about Moodle and Instructional design! See Moodle Information
> <http://ctl-unca.org/moodle3/>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 2:03 PM Grogan, David <David.Grogan at tufts.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> David Grogan
>>
>> Senior Solutions Specialist
>>
>> Tufts Technology Services – Educational Technology Services
>>
>> 617-627-2859
>>
>>
>>
>>
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